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| Till date, the memoir was never returned to his family by successive JK Govts | | Will Govt trace Shyama Prasad Mookerje's last diary now? | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 2: As the government claims to have fulfilled the long cherished dream of Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee by scraping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the question remains that whether the government now will be able to get back Dr Mookerjee's last diary that after his death was never returned to his family.
The demands of tracing the last dairy of Mookerjee when he came to Kashmir and died in mysterious circumstances have only turned louder in the recent past and now the government is at the helm, it will be interesting to watch whether the dairy, reporting containing the deep dark secrets, will be traced now.
In a special mention in the Parliament, Tarun Vijay, BJP MP on July 8, 2014 had stated: "Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was a great statesman and national leader who sacrificed his life for national integration and social unity. He breathed his last under mysterious circumstances on June 23, 1953 in a jail at Srinagar. No enquiry was done. His last diary, which he used to keep meticulously, was never returned to his family by the then J&K government. After his sacrifice the permit system to enter J&K was abolished and the nomenclatures of Wazir-e-Azam and Sadr-e- Riasat were changed to the Chief Minister and the Governor. But, still the two flag system remains in operation in J&K. I demand the government must abolish the two flag system for J&K and allow only Indian National tricolour for their state as is applicable in all other Indian provinces."
Now when the state flag is nowhere and so is not its constitution, the demand for tracing Dr Mookerjee's last diary is only turning pertinent with each passing day.
Sheikh Abdullah in his autobiography 'Aatesh-e-Chinar' recalls the time when Mookerjee was arrested and kept in Srinagar jail. He said: "I often made enquiries about Mookerjee's health. I was every time told that he was fine. The speaker of parliament Sardar Hakum Singh also came to Kashmir to see Mookerjee. After he had met him, he complained to me that Mookerjee was restrained from moving outside for his walks."
Sheikh Abdullah further writes: "During Mookerjee's detention, Nehru and Azad came on visits here one after other and stayed for some time. They were put up in state guest house near Chashma Shahi, hardly within a mile from where Mookerjee was. But neither expressed a desire to meet him. Seeing this, I also avoid meeting him. I though if I did, it might create a new misunderstanding. I was at home it was early morning when Saraf appeared and broke the sad news that Mookerjee is no more. When I asked for the details, all he said was that his death was due to a heart attack. I was sad. I had been repeatedly told that he was doing fine. How negligent the minister was in this regard can be realised from the fact that Mookerjee had died the previous night but had withheld the news from me until the following morning. Was this inefficiency or calculated remissness to cover up a dangerous conspiracy, I wouldn't know." |
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