Mookerjee’s views on various issues were far ahead of time: Modi

‘His words still guide millions of people’
Mookerjee sacrificed his life for Kashmir: Shah

Sanjeev Pargal

JAMMU, July 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the vision of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee to bring the country out of disappointment and frustration after the independence is still guiding millions of people. He said Mookerjee’s views on education-linked areas, women empowerment and atomic policy were way ahead of the time.
Paying tribute to Mookerjee on his birth anniversary today, Modi, in a video posted on X, said: “After independence the vision of Syama Prasad Mookerjee to bring country out of disappointment and frustration is still guiding millions of people”.
He said as India’s first Industries and Supplies Minister Mookerjee made country’s first Industrial Policy.”
“Mookerjee used to say if the Government, educational institutions and industrial sector together encourage the business units, the country will soon become economically independent,” the Prime Minister said.

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He added that Mookerjee’s views on education-linked areas, women empowerment and atomic policy were far ahead of that time.

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“Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee used to say the nation can stay safe only with its own energy. He had faith in country’s resources and talented people,” Modi further said.
Paying heartfelt tribute to Mookerjee on the occasion of his birth anniversary, the Prime Minister wrote on X that Mookerjee sacrificed his life to protect the honor, dignity, and pride of the country. “His ideals and principles are invaluable in the construction of a developed and self-reliant India” he added.
Meanwhile, addressing a function at Anand, Gujarat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah also paid tribute to Syama Prasad Mookerjee on the occasion of his birth anniversary and said Kashmir would have never become an integral part of India without Mookerjee.
“Mookerjee sacrificed his life for Kashmir, raising the slogan ‘Ek Desh Mein Do Vidhan, Do Pradhan, Aur Do Nishan Nahi Chalenge’ (There can’t be two Constitutions, two flags and two leaders in the same country),” he said.
Shah said all credit goes to Mookerjee and Swami Pranavananda for West Bengal being a part of India.
“Mookerjee (who was then Industry Minister) resigned from Jawaharlal Nehru’s Cabinet in protest against the policy of appeasement. The party, Jan Sangh, which he started with 10 members, has today become the world’s largest political party, as the BJP, with a membership of 12 crore people,” the Home Minister said.
On the occasion, Shah also launched a newly formed multi-state cooperative body named Sardar Patel Cooperative Dairy Federation Limited and unveiled its logo.
“We have to strongly implement three things. Transparency, acceptance of technology and keeping the members (farmers and societies of the cooperative sector) of cooperative institutions in the centre of all activities,” he said, adding that the lack of transparency “harms” the spirit of cooperation.
Without technology, there is no prosperity, and cooperation could not survive in competition, he said.
He said the 10 initiatives launched during the event, including the start of a salt cooperative in Gujarat, will lead to the creation of a strong brand such as Amul.
Shah said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the cooperative sector has seen the registration of 2 lakh primary agricultural credit societies (PACS), the foundation of Tribhuvan Sahkari University, the first national cooperative university, and the creation of three new national cooperatives in the dairy sector.

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