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BJP MP from Uttara Kannada Vishveshwara Kageri sparked a contention by claiming that the nationalist anthem “Jana Gana Mana” was “originally written to invited British officials” and that “Vande Mataram” should person been chosen arsenic India’s nationalist anthem instead. The erstwhile Assembly Speaker and MP’s connection came astatine an lawsuit successful Honnavar to people 150 years of “Vande Mataram”.
The MP’s remark drew crisp disapproval from RDPR and IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge, who called it “WhatsApp past lesson” and “utter nonsense.”
Responding successful a station connected X, Mr. Kharge wrote, “Another day, different RSS ‘WhatsApp history’ lesson. BJP MP Sri Kageri present claims our National Anthem is ‘British.’” He pointed retired that Rabindranath Tagore had himself clarified successful 1937 and 1939 that it hails the “Dispenser of India’s destiny” and “could ne'er beryllium George V, George VI, oregon immoderate different George” arsenic claimed by Mr. Kageri and falsely claimed connected societal media.
Targeting the RSS, Mr. Kharge claimed the organisation had a “tradition of disrespecting the Constitution, the tricolour and the National Anthem.”
Labour Minister Santosh Lad besides questioned Mr. Kageri’s abrupt alteration successful stance. “Their (BJP’s) publication to the state question itself is nothing. Earlier, helium himself would sing Jana Gana Mana. Why is helium doing this suddenly?” Mr. Lad asked.
