Why didn’t you sing Vande Mataram in full all these years?: Mallikarjun Kharge questions Modi, BJP
Referring to the Haldwani ‘purification’ ritual, the Congress president asserted that no ritual could change him or his ideology
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders over their refusal to sing the full version of "Vande Mataram" during Congress meetings. Kharge was responding to the BJP's resolution passed on August 22, 2026, which criticized the Congress Working Committee's decision to restrict the singing of the national song to its first two stanzas at party events.
Kharge pointed out that Modi had served as Chief Minister of Gujarat for 13-and-a-half years and had been Prime Minister of India for 12 years by then, yet he had never sung the complete version of the song. He also highlighted that BJP Chief Ministers in other states had not followed suit, raising the question of why the issue had only come to light now.
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