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The Congress connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) cited historiographer Sugata Bose's remarks that it was connected Rabindranath Tagore's proposal that the enactment decided successful 1937 that lone the archetypal portion of Vande Mataram would beryllium sung astatine nationalist meetings, and said these comments "further expose" Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared connected X a video clip successful which Sugata Bose is talking astir the relations betwixt Subhas Chandra Bose and India's archetypal Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
"Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru worked precise intimately astatine the clip of the All India Congress Committee's (AICC) gathering successful Calcutta successful October-November of 1937. At that clip some of them consulted Rabindranath Tagore connected a precise delicate taxable and that was the opus Vande Mataram," Sugata Bose said successful the video.
"It was connected Rabindranath's proposal that the Congress decided astatine this AICC gathering that from past on, astatine nationalist meetings lone the archetypal portion of the song, which is simply a beauteous evocation of the nationalist splendour of our country, would beryllium performed," the historiographer said.
"That was due to the fact that Tagore felt that we needed unity and bully consciousness successful our nationalist question and helium did not privation a rivalry betwixt antithetic spiritual communities. So already from that constituent onwards they were coming adjacent unneurotic and Mahatma Gandhi decided that Subhas Chandra Bose would beryllium the president of the Congress, and helium would beryllium Jawaharlal Nehru's successor successful 1938," Sugata Bose added.
So that twelvemonth was the coming unneurotic of the antithetic strands of the Congress, helium noted.
Posting the video, Mr. Ramesh said, "Sugata Bose, 1 of India's finest historians, is simply a Professor astatine Harvard University and besides Director of the Netaji Research Bureau successful Kolkata. He was a Lok Sabha MP during 2014-2019." He is the grandson of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's member Sarat Chandra Bose and is the writer of respective definitive books connected Netaji,” the Congress person said.
"This speech further exposes the PM," helium added.
Mr. Ramesh's remarks travel a time aft Mr. Modi tore into the Congress, alleging that Nehru betrayed "Vande Mataram" by bowing to Muhammad Ali Jinnah's absorption to the nationalist opus that led to it being fragmented and pandering to his communal concerns, putting India connected the way of appeasement politics.
Parties spar implicit ‘Vande Mataram’
The day-long statement connected the 150th day of "Vande Mataram" saw the treasury and absorption members locked successful a verbal duel connected a big of issues, including nationalism.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra delivered the Congress' effect claiming that the authorities sought the peculiar treatment keeping successful caput the Assembly elections successful West Bengal adjacent year.
While the Congress and different absorption parties accused the BJP-led NDA authorities of rewriting past and giving a governmental colour to the "Vande Mataram" debate, Mr. Modi and different members from the treasury benches accused the Congress of resorting to appeasement politics.
Priyanka Gandhi accused the BJP of committing a "big sin" by creating a contention implicit "Vande Mataram" and Mr. Modi of "selectively" quoting Nehru. She besides wanted the authorities to "understand" the existent "Vande Mataram" chronology.
