{"id":14703,"date":"2026-08-20T22:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=14703"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:25:44","slug":"vande-mataram-row-amit-shah-asks-people-to-rally-against-congress-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=14703","title":{"rendered":"Vande Mataram row: Amit Shah asks people to rally against Congress | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133389680,imgsize-50168,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/amit-shah.jpg\" alt=\"Vande Mataram row: Amit Shah asks people to rally against Congress\" title=\"Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states\">Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: Upping the ante against Congress&#8217;s decision to stick to singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, home minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/amit-shah\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amit Shah<\/a> on Thursday exhorted people to rally against the opposition party&#8217;s stand and said BJP will take its campaign to the masses and legislatures.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>&#8220;I want to remind the country that Congress in 1937 chose to truncate Vande Mataram for appeasement of Muslims that sowed the seeds of the nation&#8217;s Partition. It strengthened the two-nation theory. Finally, it led to the country&#8217;s division and birth of Pakistan,&#8221; Shah said. He called the CWC resolution a startling and anti-national decision.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The nation once made the mistake of dividing Vande Mataram into two parts and we suffered serious consequences for this,\u201d Amit Shah said. He added Congress had proven that under <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rahul-gandhi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rahul Gandhi<\/a>\u2019, it was forcefully following its appeasement politics, while lauding Vande Mataram as an immortal creation which inspired countless freedom fighters as they went to the gallows or spent many years in incarceration.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Defending its decision, Congress has said the resolution to sing only the first two stanzas was adopted in the presence of several great figures, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>BJP has argued that Congress\u2019s stand in 1937 was an outcome of its eagerness to placate Muslim League, and it had also made several other concessions to the M A Jinnah-led party, including agreeing to cow slaughter. BJP president Nitin Nabin said Congress had become the new Muslim League, accusing the party of formalising its insult of the national song in the resolution. Shah dubbed the 1937 resolution a \u201chistoric mistake\u201d, which, he said, Modi govt had corrected on the 150th anniversary of the song\u2019s creation by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay with its decision that its full version will be sung or played at all govt functions.<\/p>\n<div data-type=\"in_view\" class=\"  \">\n<div class=\"LEzX4\">\n<div class=\"PmOGb\">\n<p class=\"PSf84\">Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Insightful<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Agree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Disagree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Skeptical<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Concerning<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Promising<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Worth Reading<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Big Development<\/button><\/p>\n<p><textarea class=\"T9MbS\" rows=\"1\" placeholder=\"Add your Thoughts...\"\/><button type=\"button\" class=\"ZW6JD \" disabled=\"\">Post Comment<\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"swnca\">Be respectful \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/termsandcondition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"gkv0P\">TOI community guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Parliament had also given it legal protection, he said, in a reference to the recent amendment to Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, which has brought the national song on a par with the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, making any slight to it a penal offence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>The home minister said Congress was giving its British-era resolution more weight than Parliament of a free India.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Shah\u2019s assertion that BJP will go to people and legislatures against it is an indication that the governing party will seize on the issue that hews with its nationalism plank to launch protests and raise the issue in state assemblies and Parliament.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>The first meeting of the party\u2019s national office-bearers under its president Nitin Nabin Saturday may also take up the issue.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/vande-mataram-row-amit-shah-asks-people-to-rally-against-congress\/articleshow\/133389437.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states New Delhi: Upping the ante against Congress&#8217;s decision to stick to singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, home minister Amit Shah on Thursday exhorted people to rally against the opposition party&#8217;s stand and said BJP will take its campaign to 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