PM Modi Honours 98-Year-Old BJP Veteran Makhanlal Sarkar In Kolkata | Emotional Tribute

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared an emotional moment in Kolkata as he felicitated and took blessings from 98-year-old BJP veteran Makhanlal Sarkar — one of the party’s oldest grassroots workers in West Bengal.Makhanlal Sarkar was arrested in Kashmir in 1952 while accompanying Syama Prasad Mukherjee during the movement to hoist the Indian tricolour there. Decades later, he continues to be remembered as one of the early nationalist figures linked to post-Independence political movements in India.The gesture by PM Modi comes amid the BJP’s continued outreach in West Bengal and renewed focus on the legacy of Syama Prasad Mukherjee.