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“Syama Prasad Mookerjee was a member of Nehru’s cabinet and when the Nehru government decided to go to the United Nations, it happened after a unanimous decision by the cabinet. There is nothing to say anywhere that Mookerjee, as a member of the cabinet, dissented either while the decision was being taken or after it,” senior Congress leader Jaipal Reddy told The Indian Express.

“He was a complete party to the decision to take Kashmir to the UN. He was also party to the agreement between the Government of India and Kashmir with regard to Article 371. Mookerjee was also party to the decision to declare a truce,” he added.

“Mookerjee differed with Nehru later and resigned from the cabinet when he thought Sheikh Abdullah’s activities were not being properly checkmated. … But Mookerjee never objected to India taking the issue to the UN or to Article 371,” he said. Reddy said Mookerjee was a leader who “loudly pleaded for partition of Bengal.”