The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS ) was founded by Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951 to espouse the nationalist cause.

The BJS was started by Syama Prasad Mookerjee on 21 October 1951 in Delhi in consultation with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee ( July 6, 1901 – June 23, 1953 ) was an Indian politician, who served as Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.

Mookerjee was born on July 6, 1901 in Kolkata.

His father was Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, a well-respected advocate in Bengal, who became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta, and his mother was Lady Jogmaya Devi Mookerjee.

Mookerjee was a political leader who felt the need to counteract the communalist and separatist Muslim League of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who were demanding either exaggerated Muslim rights or a Muslim state of Pakistan.

Dr. Mookerjee was initially a strong opponent of the Partition of India, but following the communal riots of 1946-47, Mookerjee strongly disfavored Hindus continuing to live in a Muslim-dominated state and under a government controlled by the Muslim League.

Mookerjee was widely respected by many Indians and also by members of the Indian National Congress, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of its chief leaders.

Mookerjee considered Nehru's actions as appeasement, and was hailed as a hero by the people of West Bengal.

Along with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Dr. Mookerjee is considered the godfather of Hindu nationalism in India, especially the Hindutva movement. Though Dr. Mookerjee was not associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he is widely revered by members and supporters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

" According to another Indologist, Radha Kumud Mookerjee, " So long as both Mahavira and Buddha were alive, Ajatasatru was a follower of Mahavira.

Justice Mookerjee was the university's honourary treasurer and has been associated with the work of the university since its inception in 1999.

Although it remained a relatively small political party, the Mahasabha's members at various times included pre-eminent Indian political leaders such as famous Indian freedom fighter Dr. B. S. Moonje, who was the All India President of the Hindu Mahasabha in 1927 and was one of the patriarchs of the organization, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar, who was president of Hindu Mahasabha held at Jabalpur in 1928 and at Delhi in 1932, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, founder of the Benaras Hindu University ; Dr. K. B. Hedgewar, founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) and the former chief minister of the Central Provinces and Berar ; Syama Prasad Mookerjee of Bengal, who served as Central Minister in Nehru's cabinet ; and Narayan Bhaskar Khare, who served as the Mahasabha's president from 1949 to 1951.

Mookerjee had left Mahasabha after his proposal to allow Muslims to gain membership was turned down by Savarkar.

The Vice President of the Constituent Assembly was Professor Harendra Coomar Mookerjee, a former Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University and a prominent Christian from Bengal, who also served as the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly's Minorities Committee ; he was appointed Governor of West Bengal after India became a republic.

Mookerjee adopted causes to protect Hindus against what he believed to be the communal propaganda and the divisive agenda of the Muslim League.

But on issue of the 1950 Delhi Pact with Pakistani Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan, Dr. Mookerjee resigned from the Cabinet on April 6, 1950.

On 11 February 1941 S P Mookerjee told a Hindu rally that if Muslims wanted to live in Pakistan they should " pack their bag and baggage and leave India ... ( to ) wherever they like ".

Dr. Mookerjee went to visit Kashmir in 1953, and observed a hunger strike to protest the law that prohibited Indian citizens from settling in a state within their own country and mandated that they carry ID cards.

In the 1952 general elections to the Parliament of India, Bharatiya Jana Sangh won three seats, Mookerjee being one of the winning candidates.

After falling out with the premier, Mookerjee quit the Indian National Congress party and founded the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Jana Sangh party in 1951.

Mookerjee obtained his degrees from the University of Calcutta.

Mookerjee and his future followers would always cite inherent Hindu practices of tolerance and communal respect as the reason for a healthy, prosperous and safe Muslim population in the country in the first place.

Dr. Mookerjee supported the partition of Bengal in 1946 to prevent the inclusion of its Hindu-majority areas in a Muslim-dominated East Pakistan ; he also opposed a failed bid for a united but independent Bengal made in 1947 by Sarat Bose, the brother of Subhas Chandra Bose and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali Muslim politician.

Mookerjee himself condemned the murder.

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS ) on October 21, 1951, following his parting ways with Nehru.

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