BJP passes decision condemning Congress’ resolution to sing solely two stanzas of Vande Mataram
NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday condemned the Congress resolution to sing solely the primary two stanzas of Vande Mataram at social gathering programmes, saying the transfer undermines the nationwide track’s legacy and significance.The social gathering handed a 10-point decision asserting that it could defend the honour, nationwide character and status related to the whole model of Vande Mataram.“No compromise on honour, legacy of Vande Mataram will likely be accepted for political comfort or appeasement,” the decision learn.It additional “resolved to strongly condemn and unequivocally oppose the Congress Working Committee’s resolution of nineteenth August 2026 to reaffirm its 1937 decision and limit Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.”Additional labwling it as “anti-imperialist cry”, the BJP additional resolved “to recall and disseminate Mahatma Gandhi’s personal testimony that Vande Mataram had turn into an “anti-imperialist cry” and that he related it with “the purest nationwide spirit”, demonstrating its bigger nationwide that means past the literary or non secular context of specific stanzas.”The BJP additionally stated it could launch a nationwide marketing campaign to spotlight the historical past, that means and significance of the nationwide track and counter what it described as makes an attempt to decrease its significance.After the decision have been handed, BJP chief Sambit Patra held a press congress slamming Congress and highlighting significance of the nationwide track. “That is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Vande Mataram. On August 15, 2026, the whole Vande Mataram, which has six stanzas, was sung from the Purple Fort. However on August 15, an indecent act happened on the Congress workplace. Within the presence of Congress MP Sonia Gandhi and Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, when the Tricolour was being hoisted, Sonia Gandhi signalled to cease Vande Mataram after two stanzas,” he added.
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“On August 19, a proposal got here in on the CWC assembly stating that we’ll sing solely two stanzas of Vande Mataram. Everyone knows why this resolution was taken in 1937,” he added.Earlier, Union dwelling minister Amit Shah had additionally attacked the Congress Working Committee’s decision, calling the choice “anti-national” and accusing the social gathering of reviving what he described as its decades-old “politics of appeasement”.
