BJP to mark 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram’ with nationwide recitations from November 7

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Wednesday announced that “Vande Mataram” would beryllium collectively sung crossed the state connected November 7, the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to be 1 specified lawsuit astatine the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here.

The celebrations volition beryllium held astatine 150 sites of nationalist significance, including the Kargil War Memorial, the Cellular Jail successful the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Swaraj Ashram successful Odisha, Shaheed Smarak Park successful Agra, and Namo Ghat successful Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Similar events are planned astatine astir 1,100 locations successful West Bengal.

At a property conference, BJP nationalist wide caput Tarun Chugh said the enactment would organise programmes astatine the territory and State levels to commemorate the 150th day of “Vande Mataram” from November 7 to November 26, coinciding with Constitution Day. The events volition see a pledge to beforehand the usage of made-in-India products.

“‘Vande Mataram’, which served arsenic a motto for the country’s independence, inspired millions of revolutionaries. Many state fighters went to the gallows portion chanting ‘Vande Mataram’ and endured the oppression of overseas invaders. It emerged arsenic a almighty mantra for India’s liberation from the British,” helium said.

Mr. Chugh said the nationalist opus was composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay successful 1875 and was famously recited by Rabindranath Tagore successful 1896.

He added that astatine the Indian National Congress league successful Kakinada successful 1923, erstwhile “Vande Mataram” was being sung, past Congress president Maulana Mohammad Ali had objected to it connected spiritual grounds. In 1937, the Congress Working Committee decided to follow lone its archetypal 2 stanzas arsenic the nationalist song. “Even later, connected galore occasions, the Congress and its leaders person demonstrated their intolerance towards ‘Vande Mataram’ connected assorted platforms,” helium said.

(With PTI inputs)