Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (A Profile)
By:
Truth Detector
(Courtesy of Prof. Bal Raj Madhok, ex-MP, Lok Sabha, President, Bharatiya Jana Sangh)
There was no question of Dr. Mookerjee’s portrait being put up on the wall as long as the Nehru tribe ruled in New Delhi. In fact, it was Nehru’s man, Sheikh Abdullah who had much to do with the assassination of Dr. Mookerjee. Dr. Mookerjee was arrested by his bigoted anti-national Moslem Kashmiri police and he was given a fatal injection without any responsible doctor being present, who had prior knowledge of Dr. Mookerjee’s physical condition.
With the formation of the Janata Government in 1977, hope arose that justice might be done to such founding fathers of Indian freedom as had the courage of conviction of differing with Nehru and do their duty to the Motherland as they saw fit. As the Secretary of the Dr. Mookerjee Memorial Committee, Prof. Bal Raj Madhok approached the Speaker of the Lok Sabha with the request to put up Dr. Mookerjee’s portrait in the Central Hall. The procrastinating Speaker passed on the assignment to someone else and incompetent as they all were, the Janata Government itself fell before the slow-coaches could even take any decision in the matter.
The matter was raised again after the fall of the Congress Government. The Congress Government of course under no circumstances would put up a portrait of any Hindu patriot in the Central Hall. For them, only non-Hindu politicians of their own sectarian lobby counted. V.P. Singh formed his government next. This man, who would later ‘Mandalize’ Indian poilitics and thus do nothing of substance for the country, put up a portrait of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar instead in 1990. Not only that; it did not even take any decision about Dr. Mookerjee’s portrait. This man’s government too, of course, was kicked out by the Indian masses and Chandra Sekhar came to power. It was Chandra Sekhar in whose tenure the portraits of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia were put up in the Central Hall.
Dr. Mookerjee’s portrait was donated by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Many people spoke on the occasion including India’s president. On behalf of the donors, BJP’s Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke too. Vajpayee described Dr. Mookerjee as the founder of the Bharatiya
Janata Party, which today has a sizeable presence in the country’s political stage. It was a significant statement. It clearly implied that BJP’s claims that they had nothing to do with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Dr. Mookerjee’s philosophy, that they drew their inspiration from the preachings of Mr. M.K. Gandhi and Jai Prakash Narain instead, claims that they have been shouting out loud from roof-tops all these years, claims that had been calculated to project Vajpayee’s secular image as opposed to Dr. Mookerjee’s nationalistic and fully patriotic image, were now being undercut by Atal Behari himself. The attitude of the Hindus of India, the growing realization among the masses about the nasty and even treasonous treatment these secular leaders of all parties, even those of the BJP, meted out to the nation, no doubt is the primary reason for such volte face. The developing situation in the country and the growing realization about the need and relevance of the Jana Sangh seems to have opened the eyes of the BJP leadership who now appear to return to its Jana Sangh moorings.
This is a welcome development. Its logical corollaries and of course honesty demand that the BJP should accept the Jana Sangh name and its flag as well and totally merge with the nationalist party.
Prof. Bal Raj Madhok has been talking of bringing about a Hindu Revolution to make Hindusthan the country of the dreams of Dr. S.P. Mookerjee, Dr. K.B. Hedgewar. The short-sighted BJP leaders ridiculed Prof. Madhok, drove him out of the Jana Sangh in 1973 on the plea that India’s Moslems were allergic to him. They knew not that Moslems are allergic to anything non-Moslem. None of them were familiar with the Moslem psyche. They know nothing of the Koran or the Hadis that guide the Moslem thought process. The Koran has clearly stipulated what Allah has in mind for the Kafir Hindu! But the BJP leaders wanted the Moslems in. And what has been the result?
They have wasted twenty valuable years and only now the short-sighted self-centered BJP men have started, just started, speaking the language of Madhok. This is clear from the writing of Dr. Jay Dubashi, member of the National Executive Committee of the BJP. Dr. Dubashi writes in the Weekly Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece of the capital, in its issue of July 7, 1991:
“India is a Hindu country and those who want to come to terms with it have to come to terms with the fact that it is and has always been, a Hindu country…Those who disown their Hindu-ness will one day be forced to disown their history; they became political and cultural orphans which is what we have been all these years.
Men like Nehru were ashamed to say that they were Hindus, which is almost like denying that you are your mother’s son. The BJP has been successful in transforming the very basis of Indian politics. The words secularism, communalism, nationalism are not what they used to be. The BJP is truly a revolutionary party for all revolutions begin with new meanings for old words and the Hindu revolution has just begun.”
Dr. Jay Dubashi needs to be complimented for this forthright statement. But in reality the credit for the change goes not to the BJP but to the BJS (Bharatiya Jana Sangh) and of course to Prof. Bal Raj Madhok, its President. In one way, one can even call it Madhokism but then the BJP-wallahs have all these years been anti-Madhok. How can they be Madhokists and still be anti-Madhok? Well, the old Gandhi taught us how to love the English but hate British Imperialism. This was one of the tricks of the old man; the trick for the man who wants to catch the fish from the water but not get wet! But can they love Madhokism without loving Madhok? The people’s pressure will precisely make them do exactly that or BJP will disappear.
Epilogue: The life of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was snuffed out in Sheikh Abdulah’s Kashmir in 1953. It was only in 1991 that his portrait was finally installed in the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament.
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel got his Bharat Ratna award posthumously even AFTER the same award was given to Rajiv (alias Roberto) Gandhi. In the case of Rajiv Gandhi, the award came just after his assassination even before he was cleared of the Bofors charges. This youngman was perhaps the dumbest prime minster ever installed in New Delhi. For three years he just gallivanted in Cambridge at the expense of Indian taxpayers, gave up his native religion to marry a foreign woman of alien faith who would not give up her faith for her husband, nor her nationality for Indian citizenship. Only in 1984, after it became certain that Rajiv was going to take over where Indira Gandhi had left off, she accepted Indian citizenship but not any of our religions of the Hindu Commonwealth of Faiths such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism etc.
This goes to show that we had only rotten people at the helm of our national affairs. They say the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Our India which was once upon a time the wealthiest country in the world, a land for the discovery of which navigators would give their everything, a country which even after some 100 years of foreign rule and several centuries of Islamic vandalism, still had several thousand billions of British pound sterling in our national kitty, has been reduced to dire poverty in just forty years. Not only have they squandered our wealth, they have reduced our national pride too in the comity of nations.
It is time that we get rid of this dead wood and as soon as possible. When you look at Britain’s John Major or Germany’s current Chancellor or Japan’s Taifu and then cast your glance at our Venkataraman or Narasimha Rao, you feel like we have chosen the most incompetent from the 800 million odd Indians we have in our land. One would say that these men have no national pride in them; that they live through the days only to deliver meaningless speeches, attend irrelevant meetings, squander hours and hours of valuable time doing nothing! And it all reflects on the little that gets achieved at tremendous effort consuming years of endeavor. From 1953 to 1991, it took 36 long years to get Dr. Mookerjee’s portrait installed in the Central Hall of the Parliament and that too at persistent perseverence of the Dr. Mookerjee Memorial Committee!
I think the Russians are extrememly lucky to be able to get rid of their Communists, lock stock and barrel. Oh God! When are we going to get rid of the scum that is spreading the stink all over the land, from New Delhi to all over the world!
