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The Opposition connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) demanded that the Union Government instrumentality up for treatment successful Parliament economical and livelihood issues alternatively than dwelling connected topics to “divert” the attraction of radical from existent issues.
“When determination are economical challenges successful beforehand of the country, past to person a governmental treatment connected the nationalist song Vande Mataram is conscionable an effort to divert attention,” said Opposition person successful the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, during a statement connected 150 years of the National Song.
Mr. Kharge said Parliament tin wage existent homage to Bharat Mata by discussing and resolving the issues of communal people. He alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was discussing Vande Mataram, keeping the West Bengal predetermination successful mind. Mr. Kharge said the treatment on Vande Mataram was to divert the people’s attraction from the existent challenges, specified arsenic economical issues, rising unemployment, and depreciation successful the worth of the rupee, and respective societal issues.
He said the country’s power connected neighbouring countries is decreasing and China’s power is increasing. “Nepal is demanding concern from China. Bangladesh, with China and Pakistan, is participating successful trilateral meetings. Beijing is openly pulling South Asia towards itself nether its strategical plan,” helium said. The Congress main alleged that the Prime Minister does not accidental a connection against China.
Mr. Kharge said that during the tenure of the United Progressive Alliance, the rupee was valued astatine ₹55-60 against the U.S. dollar and astatine contiguous it is astatine ₹90. “It’s conscionable similar idiosyncratic has ‘fallen from the Himalayas’,” helium said.
He said it had go a wont of the BJP to maltreatment the Congress and to people Jawaharlal Nehru and spoil his image, “which is intolerable arsenic helium is the tallest person of this country”.
“Stop spreading lies and slamming nationalist leaders to screen up your ain failures. Learn to respect the leaders who built the Constitution and the leaders who sacrificed everything for our country’s independence,” helium said.
DMK MP Tiruchi Siva said the authorities should besides admit the contributions of state fighters from South India. He urged the Centre to dedicate the adjacent warship to the representation of state combatant Chempakaraman Pillai. Mr. Siva said Pillai coined the slogan Jai Hind, which was aboriginal popularised by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and the caller procreation does not cognize astir the contributions of specified unsung heroes of the state struggle.
RJD subordinate A.D. Singh said Vande Mataram was not created by the BJP. CPI(M) MP V. Sivadasan said the nationalist opus talks astir Bharat Mata, who is simply a mediocre woman, struggling to provender millions of her children.
AAP person Sanjay Singh said the BJP was not giving respect to the motherland arsenic it was trying to fell its failures successful the garb of nationalism. “The authorities is conscionable trying to fell its failures and crimes down the sloganeering,” helium said. “We volition not let immoderate authorities successful this state to plunder successful the sanction of slogans like Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata ki Jai. The authorities does not privation to sermon matters similar unemployment, terms rise,” helium said.
