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Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini connected Friday (February 27, 2026) alleged that the Congress enactment truncated ‘Vande Mataram’ and compromised connected the nationalist opus successful 1937 nether unit from the Muslim League and allowed appeasement authorities to override nationalist sentiment.
He was speaking during a statement connected the question of acknowledgment to the Governor’s code successful the ongoing fund league of the State Assembly. “It is simply a substance of immense pridefulness that this year’s fund league began with the Vande Mataram,” helium said, adding that those who are questioning its singing indispensable bespeak connected their ain humanities record. He said that the completion of 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram’ is not simply a ceremonial milestone, but a 150-year saga of nationalist awakening, sacrifice, and taste self-respect.
The Congress legislators, successful the meantime, staged a little walkout from the House successful a amusement of protest.
The Chief Minister said connected August 15, 1947, astatine the petition of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Pandit Omkar Nath Thakur sang Vande Mataram connected All India Radio and that connected January 24, 1950, it was accorded adjacent respect to the National Anthem and declared the National Song by the Constituent Assembly.
Mr. Saini said that successful 1937, nether absorption from the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress leadership, alternatively of firmly defending the song, initiated a review. “The past Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to Subhas Chandra Bose expressing concerns that the inheritance of ‘Anand Math’ mightiness offend Muslims. Subsequently, connected October 26, 1937, the Congress Working Committee reviewed the substance and truncated Vande Mataram,” helium said.
“This was the infinitesimal erstwhile Congress chose governmental appeasement implicit nationalist pride,” the Chief Minister said, adding that past bears witnesser to the compromise made nether pressure.
