Kolkata, May 4 -- West Bengal BJP State President Samik Bhattacharya on Monday paid tribute to Bhartiya Jana Sangh's founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee at his ancestral house in Bhawanipur, as the BJP registered a landslide victory in the state.

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rahul Sinha and West Bengal BJP in-charge Mangal Pandey also paid tribute to Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

The leaders gathered at the ancestral residence of the party ideologue to mark the win as the BJP swept the state assembly elections.

In 1947, Syama Prasad Mookerjee was the decisive voice against the "United Bengal" plan. He successfully argued that if India was partitioned, the Hindu-majority regions of Bengal must remain part of the Indian Union. After resigning from Nehru's ca...