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Mookerjee to Modi: How the RSS dream of 'integrating' Kashmir was fulfilled

Here are full texts of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh's 1952 resolutions on Kashmir which were drafted before Mookerjee's death in a Srinagar jail

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In 1953, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, died in a jail in Srinagar where he was detained by the Sheikh Abdullah government for protesting against Kashmir being an “autonomous republic within India.” A year before his death, Mookerjee was the president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh – the predecessor of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Several resolutions were passed by the Bharatiya Jana Sangh against the policies of the Jawaharlal Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah government on their stance on the Kashmir issue. Here are some of the resolutions passed under the leadership of Mookerjee