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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Friday (November 7, 2025) said his enactment has been the arrogant flagbearer of 'Vande Mataram', which awakened the corporate psyche of the federation and became the rallying outcry for freedom.
On the 150th day of India's nationalist song, Kharge said successful a connection that 'Vande Mataram', composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, embodies the tone of Bharat Mata and celebrates the unity and diverseness of India.
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"The Indian National Congress has been the arrogant flagbearer of Vande Mataram. It was during the 1896 league of the Congress successful Calcutta, nether the enactment of the past Congress President Rahmatullah Sayani, that Vande Mataram was sung publically for the archetypal clip by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
"That infinitesimal infused caller beingness into the state struggle. The Congress understood that the British Empire's argumentation of disagreement and rule, manipulating religious, caste and determination identities, was designed to interruption India's unity. Against this, Vande Mataram roseate arsenic a opus of unflinching strength, uniting each Indians successful devotion to Bharat Mata," helium said.
From the Partition of Bengal successful 1905 to the past breaths of the country's brave revolutionaries, 'Vande Mataram' echoed done the land, the Congress president said.
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It was the rubric of Lala Lajpat Rai's publication, inscribed connected Bhikaji Cama's emblem raised successful Germany, and recovered successful Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil's Kranti Gitanjali, helium noted.
"Terrified by its popularity, the British banned it, for it had go the heartbeat of India's state struggle," Mr. Kharge said.
In 1915, helium said, Mahatma Gandhi wrote that 'Vande Mataram' had go the "most almighty conflict outcry among Hindus and Musalmans of Bengal during the Partition days. It was an anti-imperialist cry".
The Congress main said Jawaharlal Nehru, the archetypal premier minister, said successful 1938 that "for much than 30 years now, the opus is related straight to Indian nationalism. Such 'songs of people' are not tailor-made neither tin they beryllium imposed connected the minds of people. They attain the heights by themselves."
Mr. Kharge claimed that successful 1937, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly started reciting 'Vande Mataram' erstwhile Purshottam Das Tandon was the speaker.
In the aforesaid year, the Indian National Congress formally recognised 'Vande Mataram' arsenic the nationalist song, reaffirming its presumption arsenic a awesome of India's unity successful diversity, helium noted.
"However, it is profoundly ironic that those who contiguous assertion to beryllium the self-proclaimed guardians of nationalism — the RSS and the BJP — person ne'er sung 'Vande Mataram' oregon our nationalist anthem, 'Jana Gana Mana', successful their shakhas oregon offices.
"Instead, they proceed to sing 'Namaste Sada Vatsale', a opus glorifying their organisations, not the nation. Since its founding successful 1925, the RSS has avoided 'Vande Mataram' contempt its cosmopolitan reverence. Not erstwhile successful its texts oregon lit does the opus find mention," helium alleged.
Mr. Kharge alleged that "the RSS and Sangh Parivar supported the British against Indians successful the nationalist movement, did not rise the nationalist emblem for 52 years, abused the Constitution of India, burnt effigies of Bapu and Babasaheb Ambedkar, and successful the words of Sardar Patel, were progressive successful Gandhiji's assassination."
The Congress, connected the different hand, takes immense pridefulness successful some 'Vande Mataram' and 'Jana Gana Mana', helium said, adding that some songs are sung with reverence astatine each enactment gathering and event, symbolising India's unity and pride.
From 1896 to the contiguous day, 'Vande Mataram' has been sung with pridefulness and patriotism arsenic a tribute to the radical of India astatine each Congress meeting, from tiny to big, helium added.
"The Congress enactment reaffirms its unshakable religion successful Vande Mataram, the eternal opus of our motherland, the clarion telephone of our unity, and the dependable of India's undying spirit," Mr. Kharge said.
In a station connected X, Congress wide caput Jairam Ramesh said successful 2003, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 1 of India's astir distinguished historians, published a definitive biography of 'Vande Mataram'.
"Rabindranath Tagore had archetypal sung Vande Mataram successful the Dec 1896 league of the Indian National Congress successful Kolkata.
"Subsequently, helium was to play the astir important relation successful determining the spot of Vande Mataram successful our nationalist beingness arsenic reflected successful the Congress Working Committee solution of October 29, 1937," Mr. Ramesh said.
