Skipping of Vande Mataram rendition at I-Day function roils Kerala politics
BJP State president calls it a ‘serious constitutional and legal issue,’ says State government should not take a stand on issues related to nationalism by bowing to political pressure. CPI State secretary Binoy Viswam questions the full rendition of Vande Mataram at the AICC headquarters and in Congress-ruled States
A day after the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) government in Kerala omitted the rendition of Vande Mataram during the Independence Day function, political tensions escalated in the State. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar condemned the decision, stating that it is a serious constitutional and legal matter.
He criticized the government, which pledged to protect the Constitution and uphold the rule of law, for bowing to political pressures when addressing nationalist symbols. Chandrasekhar questioned why Kerala's approach differs from other Congress-ruled states like Karnataka, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir. BJP national president Nitin Nabin accused the Congress party of appeasement politics, dismissing the omission of Vande Mataram as a mark of dynastic arrogance and a refusal to acknowledge India's national pride.
Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Binoy Viswam also questioned the full rendition of Vande Mataram in Congress-ruled states, suggesting a lack of ideological clarity within the party. Meanwhile, AICC general secretary K.C. Venugopal accused the BJP of stoking unnecessary debates to distract from the country's actual challenges, including issues like pellet guns against protesting students, corruption surrounding the Ayodhya Ram Temple construction, and the Central government's handling of a Chinese incursion into Indian territory.
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