Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's greatest achievement was creation of West Bengal: Tathagata Roy

Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy today credited RSS idealogue Shyama Prasad Mukherjee with the formation of West Bengal at the time of partition in 1947, saying "he practically snatched the state out of the jaws of (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah".

He also said that it was a "misimpression" that the Bengalis are revolutionaries and Left-oriented since time immemorial.

Roy, at the launch of his book "The Life and Times of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, "I personally think that the greatest achievement of Dr Mukherjee was the creation of West Bengal. He practically snatched the state out of the jaws of Jinnah."