Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jan Sangh in 1951—and within a year, had won seats in the first elections to the Lok Sabha. The Jan Sangh is a precursor to the BJP. As the political commentator and pro-BJP Rajya Sabha legislator Swapan Dasgupta once observed in an essay, the Jan Sangh and BJP are the real inheritors of the ideology of “political Hindutva" espoused by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, leader of the Hindu Mahasabha and, indeed, nurturer of “the creature that has come to be known as the political Hindu—an uncompromising modernist who, at the same time, shuns the melting pot of cosmopolitanism". Mookerjee, much like his latter-day hardline disciples, comfortably fits that self-aggrandizing, somewhat delusional mould.