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Jammu: BJP on Saturday resolved to demand declassification of files related to the death of Shyama Prasad Mookherjee, founder leader of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, BJP’s forerunner.
The Working Committee of state BJP resolved to ask the Mehbooba Mufti government in Jammu and Kashmir to declassify all files and correspondence related to the death of Mookherjee, a party spokesman said in a statement here.
Mookherjee is given credit by his supporters for abolition of the permit system which prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir requiring non-State subjects to carry a permit before entering the State.
While trying to illegally enter the State, he was arrested on 11th May, 1953, and died as a detenue on 23rd June, 1953, under mysterious circumstances.
Mookherjee had also opposed the then Congress Government’s decision to grant Kashmir a special status with its own flag and Prime Minister, saying, “Ek Desh Mein do Vidhan, do Pradhan aur do Nishan Nahi Chalenge (One country can’t have two constitutions, two prime ministers and two emblems)”.
The Working Committee of BJP, during its two day meeting, unanimously appreciated the various pro-poor, pro-farmer and development-oriented schemes launched by Prime Minister Modi and resolved to carry them to every nook and corner of the State so that it reaches to every intended beneficiary.
“The Working Committee also discussed threadbare the prevailing political situation in the State,” he said, adding the committee strongly condemned the recent anti-national activities that took place in Dental College, Jammu, and NIT Srinagar and also deplored the activities of all anti-national elements, the spokesman said.
The committee wanted
