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The Congress connected Monday (December 8, 2025) dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi "master distorian" aft helium accused the enactment of breaking the nationalist opus Vande Mataram into pieces, and demanded that helium apologise for "insulting" the country's founding fathers, including Rabindranath Tagore.
The enactment besides slammed the Prime Minister for accusing Jawaharlal Nehru of pursuing appeasement politics.
"The Master Distorian has repeated his insult of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore contiguous successful Parliament. The Master Distorian of a PM indispensable render an apology. He has insulted our founding fathers and astir of each Tagore himself," AICC wide secretary, communications, Jairam Ramesh said successful a station connected X.
Sharing pages of the biography of Tagore, Mr. Ramesh said, "Here are pages 110-112 from vol 4 of the authoritative biography successful Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore titled Rabindra-Jeebanee by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, published by Visva-Bharati successful 1994." "Nehru is being accused of appeasement. But volition the PM--the Master Distorian-- answer: 1. Which Indian person formed a conjugation successful Bengal successful the aboriginal 1940s with the idiosyncratic who moved the Pakistan solution successful Lahore successful March 1940? It was Syama Prasad Mookerjee. 2. Which Indian person applauded Jinnah successful Karachi successful June 2005? It was LK Advani. 3. Which Indian person praised Jinnah successful his publication 2009? It was Jaswant Singh," Mr. Ramesh said successful different post.
He was reacting to Prime Minister Modi's remarks that the Constitution was "throttled" and the federation chained by the Emergency erstwhile nationalist opus Vande Mataram completed 100 years.
Initiating a day-long treatment connected 150 years of Vande Mataram successful the Lok Sabha, Mr. Modi noted that Vande Mataram stood similar a stone and inspired unity contempt British oppression.
Mr. Modi cited a missive written by Nehru to Subhash Chandra Bose claiming that the inheritance of Vande Mataram could antagonise Muslims.
He said the missive was written pursuing a protestation by Mohammad Ali Jinnah successful Lucknow.
Quoting the letter, Mr. Modi said, Nehru had written that helium had work the inheritance of the opus and it could spark choler amongst Muslims.
Mr. Modi said aboriginal Congress convened a league successful "Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Bengal" to reappraisal the usage of Vande Mataram.
"But, connected October 26, Congress compromised connected Vande Mataram. They broke it into pieces nether the disguise of societal harmony, but past is witnesser ..This was Congress' effort astatine authorities of appeasement. Under unit of authorities of appeasement, Congress agreed to disagreement Vande Mataram.. this is the crushed Congress besides bowed to the request for partition..," Mr. Modi alleged.
The Prime Minister said past is simply a testament to the information that Congress knelt earlier the Muslim League and did this nether pressure.
"This is an lawsuit of the authorities of appeasement of the Congress. Because it bowed to the part of Vande Mataram, it bowed to the part of India aboriginal on.”
"Congress has maintained the aforesaid authorities of appeasement adjacent today," helium asserted amid thumping of desks by treasury benches.”
