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The BJP on Saturday (August 22) sharpened its attack on the Congress over the singing of Vande Mataram, adopting a resolution that pledged to uphold the “honour, dignity, legacy and national status of the complete Vande Mataram” and announcing a nationwide campaign around the national song.
The resolution came amid an intensifying political confrontation between the BJP and the Congress, with the Opposition party stepping up its campaign against the government a day earlier. On Friday, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi led a sit-in protest demanding the registration of an FIR over an alleged pellet gun attack on a Delhi student during the Jantar Mantar protests.
At the centre of the BJP’s latest resolution is the Congress Working Committee’s decision to reaffirm its 1937 position restricting the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party regards Vande Mataram as the National Song of Bharat, an expression of reverence for Bharat Mata, a mantra of the freedom struggle and an immortal symbol of India’s national consciousness,” BJP national president Nitin Nabin said in a post on X after the first round of deliberations among his new organisational team.
Nabin added that it also condemns “and unequivocally opposes the decision taken by the Congress Working Committee on 19th August 2026 to reaffirm its 1937 resolution and restrict the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.”
The BJP resolution accused the Congress of yielding to communal and political considerations and declared that the party would oppose any attempt to limit the status or significance of the national song.
Taking on the principal Opposition party, the BJP also resolved to “reject every attempt to subordinate the National Song to communal pressure, political appeasement or narrow vote-bank considerations.”
Nabin announced a nationwide campaign through BJP workers to “take the history, meaning, national significance and glorious legacy of Vande Mataram to every corner of Bharat.”
The campaign is expected to be carried out across the country through the party’s organisational network, with the BJP seeking to turn the history and legacy of Vande Mataram into a major political and ideological issue.
The BJP MP also called upon every citizen to remember that the words Vande Mataram were “once powerful enough to frighten an empire” and that generations of Indians carried them as a mantra of freedom, sacrifice, and national pride.
Linking the debate over Vande Mataram to the larger political contest over nationalism and the legacy of the freedom struggle, Nabin said the issue went beyond differences between political parties.
This, he also said, is not “merely a matter concerning a political party” but one that concerns India’s honour and the legacy of countless patriots who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the nation.
“That legacy cannot be reduced to the calculations of contemporary vote-bank politics. The same ‘Vande Mataram’ that echoed as the call for freedom in 1947 will resound as the supreme chant for a ‘Developed India @ 2047’ under the vision of Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji,” Nabin added.
With the BJP now planning to take the issue to the grassroots through a nationwide campaign, the debate over Vande Mataram is set to become another major flashpoint in the escalating political battle between the ruling party and the Congress.
The resolution came amid an intensifying political confrontation between the BJP and the Congress, with the Opposition party stepping up its campaign against the government a day earlier. On Friday, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi led a sit-in protest demanding the registration of an FIR over an alleged pellet gun attack on a Delhi student during the Jantar Mantar protests.
At the centre of the BJP’s latest resolution is the Congress Working Committee’s decision to reaffirm its 1937 position restricting the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party regards Vande Mataram as the National Song of Bharat, an expression of reverence for Bharat Mata, a mantra of the freedom struggle and an immortal symbol of India’s national consciousness,” BJP national president Nitin Nabin said in a post on X after the first round of deliberations among his new organisational team.
Nabin added that it also condemns “and unequivocally opposes the decision taken by the Congress Working Committee on 19th August 2026 to reaffirm its 1937 resolution and restrict the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.”
Today, on 22nd August 2026, the Bharatiya Janata Party passed an important resolution regarding the honour and protection of the historical legacy of Vande Mataram.
— Nitin Nabin (@NitinNabin) August 22, 2026
The Bharatiya Janata Party strongly condemns and unequivocally opposes the decision taken by the Congress Working… pic.twitter.com/pcMiq4qBfF
The BJP resolution accused the Congress of yielding to communal and political considerations and declared that the party would oppose any attempt to limit the status or significance of the national song.
Taking on the principal Opposition party, the BJP also resolved to “reject every attempt to subordinate the National Song to communal pressure, political appeasement or narrow vote-bank considerations.”
Nabin announced a nationwide campaign through BJP workers to “take the history, meaning, national significance and glorious legacy of Vande Mataram to every corner of Bharat.”
The campaign is expected to be carried out across the country through the party’s organisational network, with the BJP seeking to turn the history and legacy of Vande Mataram into a major political and ideological issue.
The BJP MP also called upon every citizen to remember that the words Vande Mataram were “once powerful enough to frighten an empire” and that generations of Indians carried them as a mantra of freedom, sacrifice, and national pride.
Linking the debate over Vande Mataram to the larger political contest over nationalism and the legacy of the freedom struggle, Nabin said the issue went beyond differences between political parties.
This, he also said, is not “merely a matter concerning a political party” but one that concerns India’s honour and the legacy of countless patriots who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the nation.
“That legacy cannot be reduced to the calculations of contemporary vote-bank politics. The same ‘Vande Mataram’ that echoed as the call for freedom in 1947 will resound as the supreme chant for a ‘Developed India @ 2047’ under the vision of Hon’ble PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji,” Nabin added.
With the BJP now planning to take the issue to the grassroots through a nationwide campaign, the debate over Vande Mataram is set to become another major flashpoint in the escalating political battle between the ruling party and the Congress.
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