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The West Bengal portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) welcomed the Union Home Ministry’s determination that all six stanzas of the National opus Vande Mataram shall beryllium sung first erstwhile the National Song and National Anthem Jan Gana Man are to beryllium played together.
Only the archetypal 2 stanzas of Vande Mataram written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay person been played astatine authoritative functions truthful far. The remaining stanzas, which invoke Hindu goddesses, person been omitted. The bid by the Ministry said that whenever the National Song and the National Anthem are sung oregon played, the National Song volition beryllium sung oregon played archetypal and the assembly wherever the National Song is sung shall basal astatine attention.
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West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that it is astir unfortunate if idiosyncratic smells communalism successful Goddess Durga. References to Goddess Durga person been made successful the opus Vande Mataram. “I thought they (Trinamool Congress) were devotees of Goddess Durga. Now that they are Opposing Vande Mataram, it proves that each the Durga Puja carnivals were fake,” helium said.
The West Bengal authorities has been organising the Durga Puja carnival, wherever idols from big-ticket Durga Puja pandals spell past Kolkata’s Red Road. The taste lawsuit that draws thousands is presided implicit by enactment chairperson and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress spokesperson Arup Chakraborty said that the determination is aimed astatine West Bengal Assembly polls and conscionable arsenic the BJP utilized Lord Ram for electoral gains, it is utilizing Vande Mataram for the aforesaid purpose.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his nationalist meetings successful West Bengal, had referred to Vande Mataram and that the state was observing 150 years of the nationalist song.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during a nationalist gathering successful West Bengal connected January 31 had alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was opposing Vande Mataram for her ‘vote bank’ authorities and the radical of Bengal volition not forgive her for that.
In November 2025, West Bengal made it mandatory for each schools tally and aided by the State Government to sing the State song, Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol, composed by Rabindranath Tagore successful 1905. The BJP enactment successful West Bengal has accused the Trinamool Congress of ignoring Vande Mataram connected its sesquicentenary year.
Now, on with the National Anthem and the State Song, if the National Song is sung astatine greeting assemblies, it would necessitate six minutes for children to sing each 3 songs.
