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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (December 8, 2025) welcomed a discussion connected 150 years of Vande Mataram successful the Lok Sabha but added that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were not alert of the publication of Bengal successful the state struggle.
“Let him (PM) bash immoderate helium wants. We person nary problem...Earlier, the Rajya Sabha issued a notification stating that Jai Hind and Vande Mataram would not beryllium allowed,” the Chief Minister told journalists earlier leaving for North Bengal.
The Chief Minister said that the BJP enactment is not alert of the publication of the icons of Bengal. “ I besides heard yesterday that immoderate individuals successful the BJP bash not similar Netaji. So they bash not similar Netaji, Gandhiji oregon Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Who precisely bash they like? How person specified radical travel to the forefront erstwhile they bash not adjacent cognize the past of India? Are they alert of Bengal’s contribution?,” she said.
The Trinamool Congress chairperson besides added that “regarding Vande Mataram, I privation to accidental that it originates from Bengal, conscionable similar our nationalist anthem. The full opus of Vande Mataram was not taken, lone selected lines were adopted”. Last month Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated “crucial” verses of Vande Mataram were removed successful 1937, fragmenting the opus and sowing the seeds of the country’s partition.
The Trinamool Congress enactment besides took objection to the Prime Minister referring Bamkim Chandra Chattopadhyay arsenic ‘Bankim da” who penned Vande Mataram astir 150 years ago.
The West Bengal ruling enactment took to societal media and said that BJP is utterly alien to Bengal’s mode of beingness .“In Bengal, our literary, cultural, and spiritual icons are ineffable pillars of our civilisational consciousness. We revere Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. We venerate Vande Mataram arsenic a timeless anthem of absorption and nationalist awakening. But BJP understands nary of this. None. Which is precisely wherefore @narendramodi had the audacity to notation to Rishi Bankim arsenic “Bankim da”, arsenic though helium were a assemblage senior, a chai-stall acquaintance, oregon a run prop to beryllium casually name-dropped,” the Trinamool Congress said.
After involution of TMC MP Sougata Roy, the Prime Minister successful Lok Sabha switched to ‘Bankim Babu’ but the Trinamool Congress was unaccommodating successful the disapproval of the Prime Minister. The Trinamool Congress has often dubbed BJP arsenic a enactment of “outsiders” and the improvement assumes value earlier upcoming assembly polls successful the State.
“This is what happens erstwhile outsiders who person nary integrated transportation to Bengal’s intelligence contented effort to mimic reverence they person ne'er learned to practice. They mispronounce, they trivialise, they trim giants to gimmicks, and successful the process, exposure their utter contempt for what Bengal genuinely stands for,” the Trinamool Congress said.
Only a fewer weeks ago, the Trinamool Congress and the BJP successful West Bengal were competing to due cons similar Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. The Trinamool Congress authorities has precocious travel retired with a notification that Tagore’s Song “Banglar Maati Banglar Jal’ ( Bengal onshore and Bengal’s water)’ volition beryllium played during greeting assembly successful state-run schools. The BJP, which has been trying to due Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, had questioned the timing of the decision, saying that the Trinamool was not offering the desired respect to Vande Mataram, which was a warfare outcry during the state struggle.
