Considering Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s stature, which preceded even his Hindu Mahasabha phase, there was speculation over why Prime Minister Nehru had allocated the ministry of Industry and Supplies to him, which of course came with his Home Minister’s strong recommendation of his candidature. It was rather well known that if he had had his way, Mookerjee would have ‘personally preferred education which had been his special field since his early youth,’ for he could have then ‘laid a sound foundation for a truly national education policy.’53 However, Nehru was well aware of the fact that a man
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