New Delhi: Accusing the Congress of eradicating some stanzas from the nationwide music, ‘Vande Mataram’, for its “politics of appeasement” that ultimately led to the “compromise of the Partition of India”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked India’s first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru. He alleged that Mohammed Ali Jinnah opposed these stanzas, and Nehru agreed along with his sentiments.

Each Homes are holding a particular dialogue on ‘Vande Mataram’, composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1875, on the event of the nationwide music finishing its 150 years. Modi, opening the dialogue, slammed the Congress and Nehru for doing ‘tukde tukde’ of the music. He requested why the nationwide music was ‘betrayed’, regardless of being probably the most highly effective image of India’s resistance and unity.

“The politics of the Muslim League opposing ‘Vande Mataram’ gathered tempo in 1937. Mohammed Ali Jinnah raised slogans in opposition to it,” Modi mentioned. “Nehru ko apna sinhasan dolta dikha (Nehru noticed his throne shaking). As an alternative of condemning their statements or expressing his and the celebration’s constancy in the direction of ‘Vande Mataram’, Nehru began an ‘investigation’ into ‘Vande Mataram’ itself.”

Barely 5 days after Jinnah had conveyed his opposition, Nehru wrote a letter to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, “expressing his settlement with Jinnah”, Modi mentioned. “He mentioned that the background of ‘Vande Mataram’—associated to [Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel] ‘Anandmath’—may irritate and provoke the Muslims,” PM mentioned. Nehru wrote that the usage of ‘Vande Mataram’ could be examined and “that too in Bankim Chandra’s Bengal”, Modi mentioned, including that the Congress reached a “compromise” on 26 October and truncated the music.

Modi continued that “uss faisale ke peeche chola ye pehna (Behind that call, he wore this garb..),” that it was for sustaining communal concord, “lekin Muslim League ke dabaav mai kiya… ghutne tek diye (nevertheless it was underneath the stress from the Muslim League… they knelt)”.

‘Seeds of Partition’

On the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of ‘Vande Mataram’, it has taken centre stage, months forward of the West Bengal elections scheduled for 2026.

Modi is main the BJP’s cost in opposition to the Congress’s “sowing of the seeds of Partition” by adopting the truncated model because the nationwide music.

Slamming the Congress, he mentioned the Congress, until at present, continues the identical coverage, with the INC showing to have turn into the ‘MMC (Muslim League-y Mao-wadi Congress)’.

The celebration and its allies attempt to create controversy over the music, he alleged.

Stressing the significance of ‘Vande Mataram’, he mentioned that such was the ability of ‘Vande Mataram’ that the British had been pressured to impose a authorized ban on it.

“There was punishment for singing it and punishment for printing it. Such harsh legal guidelines had been created to suppress it,” Modi mentioned. Including, “There was a time when the mental energy of Bengal guided and impressed your complete nation. The British understood fairly effectively that the ability of Bengal was the point of interest of India’s energy. This is the reason they first labored in the direction of dividing Bengal. They believed that if Bengal broke, the nation would break. In 1905, the British applied the Partition of Bengal. However ‘Vande Mataram’ stood agency, like a rock. For the unity of Bengal, it turned the resounding name, echoing by all streets.”

Heaping reward on Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Modi additionally mentioned that in that interval of British rule, it had turn into a behavior to demean India and Indians. “It was in such a time that Bankim Chandra wrote the strains to shake the nation out of emotions of inferiority and to disclose the highly effective type of Bharat”.

“When the Emergency was imposed on the nation, and freedom was tried to be suppressed, it was ‘Vande Mataram’ that rose above and defeated these forces. When wars had been imposed on the nation, it was ‘Vande Mataram’ that impressed our forces…,” he mentioned.