July 6, 2010

Gandhinagar. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today paid tributes to Late Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in front of his oil painting at the Vidhan sabha podium, on his 109th birth anniversary.

State Legislative Assembly speaker Ashok Bhatt, State BJP President R C Faladu, Cabinet Ministers Narottam Patel, Nitin Patel, Amit Shah, Jaysinh Chauhan, MLAs, Assembly office-bearers, and students of primary school of Handiya village of Balashinor taluka also paid tributes to the late leader.

Late Mukherjee was born on July six, 1901 in Kolkata. He served as Chancellor of Kolkata University. He was elected as MLA and also served as Industries and Supply Minister in first cabinet of ministers of independent India. Being concerned with the issue of Kashmir, he went on a visit there in 1953 but was arrested on the way. During incarceration, he died in a hospital of Srinagar on June 23, 1953.

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