AGARTALA, July 6 (TIWN): Rich tributes were paid to former president of Bharatiya Jana Singh (BJS), Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee by the State BJP leaders on his 116th birth anniversary here on Thursday.

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee alternatively spelt as Syama Prasad Mookerjee was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.

After falling out with Nehru, Mukherjee quit the Indian National Congress and founded the right wing nationalist Bharatiya Jana Sangh (which would later evolve into BJP) in 1951.

BJP also released a book with the hands of Union Minister of State of Human Resource Development Dr Mahendra Nath Pande.