Dy CM: SP Mukherjee will be remembered for uniting country

Kanpur: Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Monday said that the people will always remember the name of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee as he was the first leader to unite the country after Independence.
Speaking at the seminar on ‘Personality of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’ at a hotel in Saket Nagar here Pathak said, “Jan Sangh and BJP were not formed only to gain power.Thanks to our great men, today the flag of India is flying all over the world”.
The separatist leaders of Kashmir used to say that if Article 370 was abolished, massacres would take place everywhere.
“But when it was abolished, not even a single mosquito was killed. Today, the people of Kashmir have got all those rights which the people of other states and cities of the country are enjoying”, he said.
Later, replying to a question of reporters on a recent controversy wherein the police removed a hooter from the vehicle of a local BJP leader and then a case was also booked against him for allegedly misbehaving with the police in public, Pathak said that he did not agree the way the campaign of checking police vehicles on the roads is going on and it should be stopped.
However, he said that he has spoken to senior police officers asking them to immediately stop the ongoing harassment of BJP workers and to stop such campaigns.