Prime Minister Modi alleged that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru “bifurcated” the song to “appease” minorities.
Congress MP Ranjit Ranjan on Monday strongly criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for holding a discussion in Parliament on the 150 years of Vande Mataram, questioning whether such a debate would help address the country’s urgent issues.
"Have we come to Parliament to learn history? If learning this history reduces pollution, then teach history... Today, people have to wait at the airport and travel at four times the price, is the solution to these issues being addressed by this speech?... We have also recited Vande Mataram... But under its guise, you are just blaming one party, and why are you not responding to what is happening currently, the kind of pollution there is, the problems at the airport?..." Ranjit Ranjan said.
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Meanwhile, during his speech in the House, Prime Minister Modi alleged that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru “bifurcated” the song to “appease” minorities.
PM Modi claimed, “... the Muslim League had started to strongly oppose Vande Mataram. Muhammad Ali Jinnah raised a slogan against Vande Mataram on 15 October 1937 from Lucknow... Despite giving a strong and befitting reply to the Muslim League's baseless statements, Nehru started investigating Vande Mataram...”
He further said that five days later, Nehru wrote to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose agreeing with Jinnah’s objections, adding that Vande Mataram’s background in Anand Math “can irritate Muslims.” According to the Prime Minister, “After this, Congress stated that, from 26 October onwards, in Bengal, the use of Vande Mataram will be analysed... Unfortunately, on 26 October, Congress compromised on Vande Mataram. They bifurcated the song.”
The Prime Minister accused the Congress of “kneeling before the Muslim League,” claiming that such actions eventually led to the partition of India. “The reason behind the decision,” he said, “was of social harmony, but history has it that Congress had knelt before the Muslim League... Congress policies are still the same, and along the way, the Indian National Congress has become the Muslim League Congress (MLC).”
He also alleged that Congress continues to oppose Vande Mataram “even today” and tries to create controversy around it.
BJP MP Sambit Patra echoed the Prime Minister’s remarks, saying the speech had “exposed Congress' betrayal of 'Vande Mataram’.” Patra added that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were absent during the debate due to a “sense of guilt” over the party’s historical actions.
On the other hand, SP MP Akhilesh Yadav said the BJP-led NDA “always wants to own everything.”
Similarly, Congress leader Tika Ram Jully questioned why the RSS created its own song and allegedly never sang Vande Mataram.
"Vande Mataram, which completed 150 years today... is a song of freedom... The British used to imprison those who sang Vande Mataram... Despite this, our freedom-loving people continued to sing Vande Mataram, and the Congress adopted this song. From that time until today, whenever our Congress meets, Vande Mataram and Jana Gana Mana are sung, one at the beginning and one at the end. But I want to ask them: The RSS was founded in 1925. Why didn't the RSS sing Vande Mataram? The RSS created its own song. Vande Mataram was never sung. So how do these people want to play politics on it today?..."
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