BJP's Samik Bhattacharya credits Syama Prasad Mookerjee with securing 'homeland' for Bengali Hindus

Kolkata, Oct 31 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) West Bengal president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday credited Syama Prasad Mookerjee with ensuring the creation of West Bengal as a separate province for Bengali Hindus during Partition, saying the BJP ideologue's role had been "forgotten" and remained central to the state's history. Speaking at a programme at Webel Bhavan in Salt Lake Sector V, where a bust of Mookerjee has been installed, Bhattacharya said his intervention during the Partition debate enabled people in the state to identify themselves as Indians. "Today, the fact that we are standing here and speaking and…