NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday condemned the Congress’ choice to sing solely the primary two stanzas of Vande Mataram at celebration programmes, saying the transfer undermines the nationwide music’s legacy and significance.The celebration handed a 10-point decision asserting that it might defend the honour, nationwide character and status related to the entire model of Vande Mataram.“No compromise on honour, legacy of Vande Mataram shall be accepted for political comfort or appeasement,” the decision learn.It additional “resolved to strongly condemn and unequivocally oppose the Congress Working Committee’s choice of nineteenth August 2026 to reaffirm its 1937 decision and prohibit Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.”Additional labeling it as “anti-imperialist cry”, the BJP additional resolved “to recall and disseminate Mahatma Gandhi’s personal testimony that Vande Mataram had turn out to be an “anti-imperialist cry” and that he related it with “the purest nationwide spirit”, demonstrating its bigger nationwide which means past the literary or spiritual context of specific stanzas.”The BJP additionally mentioned it might launch a nationwide marketing campaign to spotlight the historical past, which means and significance of the nationwide music 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 music. “That is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Vande Mataram. On August 15, 2026, the entire Vande Mataram, which has six stanzas, was sung from the Purple Fort. However on August 15, an indecent act passed off 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 are going to sing solely two stanzas of Vande Mataram. Everyone knows why this choice was taken in 1937,” he added.Earlier, Union house minister Amit Shah had additionally attacked the Congress Working Committee’s decision, calling the choice “anti-national” and accusing the celebration of reviving what he described as its decades-old “politics of appeasement”.
