2001 - Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Birth Centenary - VIP and Proof set

This post gives the details of Proof Set. For UNC Set, please refer to Next post.

In the Year 2001 to commemorate the Birth Centenary of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, a proof set and UNC set was released.
The details are;




Dr.Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (July 6, 1901 – June 23, 1953) was a minister in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as a Minister for Industry and Supply.

Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951, after the differences with Pandit Nehru

Mookerjee obtained his degrees from the University of Calcutta. He graduated in English securing the first position in first class in 1921 and also did MA in 1923 and BL in 1924. He became a fellow of the Senate in 1923. He enrolled as an advocate in Calcutta High Court in 1924 after his father's death. Subsequently he left for England in 1926 to study at Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister in 1927. At the age of 33, he became the youngest Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta (1934), and held the office till 1938

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) on October 21, 1951, following his parting ways with Nehru. The BJS was ideologically close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and widely considered the political arm of Hindu Nationalism. It was opposed to appeasement of India's Muslims, and favoured free-market economics as opposed to the socialist policies pursued by Nehru. The BJS also favoured a uniform civil code governing personal law matters for both Hindus and Muslims, wanted to ban cow slaughter and end the special status given to the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir. The BJS founded the Hindutva agenda which became the wider political expression of India's Hindu majority. He was also influential with the more conservative members within the Congress.

In the 1952 general elections to the Parliament of India, Dr. Mookerjee and the BJS won three seats.

Dr. Shyama Prasad was arrested on entering Kashmir on May 11, 1953. Thereafter, he was jailed in a dilapidated house. Dr. Shyama Prasad had suffered from dry pleurisy and coronary troubles, and was taken to hospital one and a half months after his arrest due to complications arising from the same. He was administered penicillin despite having informed the doctor-in-charge of his allergy to penicillin, and he died on June 23, 1953.



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Proof Set:
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Proof Set:
Re-Strike 2013 and Re-Book in 2015
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