Bharatiya Jana Sangh - Syama Prasad Mukherjee
The BJP's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, popularly known as the Jana Sangh, founded by Syama Prasad Mukherjee in 1951 in response to the politics of the dominant Congress party. Who is Syama Prasad Mukherjee? Syama Prasad Mukherjee (6 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was born in a Bengali Brahmin family on 6 July 1901 in Calcutta. In bengal, five Brahmin clans, known as Mukherjees, Chatterjees, Banerjees, Gangulys and Bhattacharjees, were each designated as Kulina ("superior") in order to differentiate them from the more established local Brahmins. They were called Kulin Brahmin. They trace their ancestry to five families of Kannauj (Pancha Gauda) who migrated to Bengal. Pancha Gauda is one of the two major groupings of Brahmins in Hinduism, of which the other is Pancha-Dravida. [3] Syama Prasad Mukherjee served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. After falling out with Nehru, protesting against the Liaquat-Nehru Pact, Mukherjee