Vande Mataram row: Amit Shah asks people to rally against Congress
Amit Shah has urged the public to oppose Congress's decision to sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram, accusing the opposition party of appeasing the Muslim League in 1937—an action that led to India's partition. The Home Minister claimed the Congress's resolution was an "historic mistake" that Modi's government corrected in 2021 by making the full version of the song mandatory at all government functions.
Shah further alleged that the Congress is now following an appeasement politics under Rahul Gandhi, echoing the dubious practices of the past under the Muslim League. The BJP president, Nitin Nabin, accused Congress of becoming the new Muslim League by formalizing its insult of the national song. The home minister emphasized that Congress was giving more importance to its 1937 resolution than the current Parliament of a free India.
The BJP plans to leverage this issue in state assemblies and Parliament, marking the beginning of a potential national protest against the Congress' stand.
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