Professor Majumdar's work on group theory has its origins in one of his early papers on molecular spectroscopy where a novel method for deriving the Clebsch-Gordan series and coefficients of SU(2) was discussed. The new approach made it possible to establish a connection between the Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients (CGC) and the Gauss hypergeometric function which was eventually identified as the generating function of the CGC. The Majumdar form of the CGC of SU(2) has appeared in acclaimed textbooks. Barut and Wilson have extensively investigated the symmetry properties of the three non-trivial forms of the CGC, namely, the Wigner-Racah, the van der Waerden and the Majumdar form. The success of the above approach for SU(2) inspired Majumdar to extend his method and obtain a similar reduction for SU(3). The SU(3) generators were expressed as differential operators in four independent variables. In terms of these, the eigenvalue equation of the quadratic Casimir operator became a partial differential equation in four independent variables, the polynomial solutions of which, form the bases of an irreducible representation of SU(3).