New Delhi, July 6 -- Union Minister and BJP national president JP Nadda on Sunday lauded the contributions of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his 125th birth anniversary and said that it was due to the efforts of the Jan Sangh founder that West Bengal and Northeast remained a part of India.

Nadda virtually inaugurated three new party district offices. These offices are among the 14 new district offices that are being inaugurated in a phased manner.

On the occasion, Nadda said, "Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee had always stuck to the ideology and sacrificed his life for the same. This country is indebted to him, as today's West Bengal and North East, which we see today, would not have been part of India. It was his intervention in the legislative...