On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee on Friday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s top leadership indicated it was keen to install a “Hindu chief minister” in Jammu and Kashmir soon, and the Centre was also looking for a successor to Governor N N Vohra.
Mookerjee, the founder of BJP’s predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh, died in 1953 in Srinagar. He had been leading protests against the special status granted to the state and advocated abrogation of Article 370. The BJP, and the Sangh Parivar, hopes to bring the issue of Article 370, part of its core agenda,