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Shashi Tharoor breaks silence on Vande Mataram row: ‘We will all stand up for the entire thing if…’

Shashi Tharoor breaks silence on Vande Mataram row: ‘We will all stand up for the entire thing if…’

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Amid the ongoing Congress vs BJP face-off over Vande Mataram, India’s national song, MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday clarified the party’s position saying it has been playing one stanza of the national anthem and two verses of Vande Mataram since 1937. File photo of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (PTI) “I think the position is very clear that the Congress is following the existing practice when it comes to Congress party functions. I think if there is a national or government function, we will all stand up for the whole for the entire thing. It depends on what is being played. But in our party, our position is that since 1937, we’ve been playing only one stanza of the national anthem and two verses of Vande Mataram. And that will remain our existing position,” Tharoor was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. BJP’s 10-point resolution on Vande Mataram This comes amid the Bharatiya Janata Party passing a 10-point resolution on the honour and historic legacy of Vande Mataram. The party said it will lead a …

Amit Shah says Congress’s decision on rendering first two stanzas of Vande Mataram is ‘anti-national’

Amit Shah says Congress’s decision on rendering first two stanzas of Vande Mataram is ‘anti-national’

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday (August 20, 2026) launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that its decision to render only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram reflected appeasement politics, disrespected martyrs and undermined national unity. In a statement to the media, Mr. Shah termed the Congress Working Committee’s move on Wednesday (August 19, 2026) to feature only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at party functions, in line with the All India Congress Committee resolution of 1937, as “anti-national”. “I want to remind the entire country that in 1937, the Congress party, for the sake of Muslim appeasement, split Vande Mataram into two pieces, laying the foundation for the country’s Partition, and from there, the two-nation theory gained strength. Ultimately, the country was partitioned, and Pakistan was born,” Mr. Shah said. The “historic mistake” was corrected in the 150th year of the emergence of the National Song by the Narendra Modi government, in an effort to “strengthen national integration …

Vande Mataram row: Amit Shah attacks Sonia Gandhi, Congress hits back, cases filed

Vande Mataram row: Amit Shah attacks Sonia Gandhi, Congress hits back, cases filed

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The controversy surrounding Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s alleged objection to the singing of the entire Vande Mataram song during the party’s Independence day celebrations snowballed into a full-blown political feud on Sunday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staging protests across the country and registering complaints against the senior opposition leader. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and others at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi. (Hindustan Times) The Congress has denied the allegation that attempts were made by Sonia to stop the singing of the full version of the national song at the AICC headquarters on Saturday. The party said Sonia was only asking for a chair for Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge as he was standing for a while. The development came days after Parliament passed a bill that makes any insult to the national song a punishable offence. The Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, was passed by a voice vote in the Lok Sabha on July …