Chengalpattu (Tamil Nadu). BJP's attack on Congress is intensifying on the issue of singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu on Thursday that the Congress Working Committee has taken an anti-national decision. Amit Shah said that he wants to remind the country that in 1937, Congress had laid the foundation for the partition of the country by dividing Vande Mataram to please the Muslims. Let us tell you that the Congress Working Committee had decided in the meeting on Wednesday that only two stanzas of Vande Mataram will be sung in the party programs.
Amit Shah said that the Narendra Modi government has corrected the mistake of Congress to strengthen national unity and has also given it a legal basis. He said that Congress's decision to sing only two verses of Vande Mataram proves its policy of appeasement. Amit Shah said that Congress not only insulted the work of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, who wrote Vande Mataram, but also insulted lakhs of people who sacrificed their lives for the country's independence. The Union Home Minister said that today the Congress Party is implementing its 1937 resolution, but is rejecting the law made by the Parliament. He said that it is surprising that under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, Congress is again pursuing the politics of appeasement. Amit Shah said that the country should be united against the decision of Congress.
#WATCH | Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu | On Congress's CWC resolution on Vande Mataram, Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, “Yesterday, Congress Working Committee took an anti-national decision. Following their 1937 resolution, Congress decided to sing only two stanzas of Vande… pic.twitter.com/9BmI4PJKml
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Actually, this year it has been 150 years since Vande Mataram was written. On this occasion, Modi government has made a rule to sing all the verses of Vande Mataram. Also, a law has been made in the monsoon session of Parliament that there will be punishment for not paying respect to Vande Mataram. Congress is against it. Congress says that its leaders had decided that only two verses of Vande Mataram will be sung and it will do the same. On August 15 this year, a controversy had arisen after Sonia Gandhi's gesture during Vande Mataram in the Congress office. BJP alleges that Sonia Gandhi tried to stop Vande Mataram from being sung in full. At that time Congress MP Jairam Ramesh had said that Sonia Gandhi was not stopping Vande Mataram. She was asking to bring a chair for Mallikarjun Kharge, but now Congress is saying that she will sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram.