) Kolkata in Bengal Died 23 June 1953 (aged 51) Political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh Religion Hindu Syama Prasad Mookerjee (or Shyama Prasad Mukherjee , Bengali : ???????????? ????????????) (July 6, 1901 - June 23, 1953) was a nationalist political leader of India , and is considered the godfather of modern