The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday passed a 10-point resolution opposing the Congress Working Committee’s decision to reaffirm its 1937 resolution restricting the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at party programmes.
It resolved to protect the honour of the full version of the national song. The BJP leaders recited all six stanzas of the national song ahead of the meeting held at the party headquarters. 1. To strongly condemn and unequivocally oppose the Congress Working Committee’s decision of 19th August 2026 to reaffirm its 1937 resolution and restrict Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes. 3. To affirm the constitutional and statutory status of Vande Mataram as established by the Constituent Assembly’s 1950 pronouncement and reinforced by Parliament’s 2026 amendment extending statutory protection to the National Song equivalent to that accorded to the National Anthem. 5. To remind the Congress that a resolution of its Working Committee cannot override the constitutional institutions or laws of the Republic of India, and that a political compromise of 1937 cannot be elevated above the constitutional settlement of 1950 and legislation enacted by Parliament in 2026. Earlier reporting noted: BJP passes resolution to protect ‘Vande Mataram’, condemns Cong move to sing 2 stanzas The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday passed a resolution condemning the Congress Working Committee’s decision to limit the singing of ‘ Vande Mataram ’ to its first two stanzas at Congress programmes.
The party resolved to highlight Mahatma Gandhi’s description of Vande Mataram as an “anti-imperialist cry” linked to the “purest national spirit” and oppose attempts to subject the National Song to “communal pressure, political appeasement or narrow vote-bank considerations”.
Earlier reporting noted: The resolution was taken at the party meeting chaired by national president Nitin Nabin and attended by the newly appointed national office-bearers. Earlier reporting noted: ALSO READ: Congress, BJP trade charges over National Song uproar in assembly
To reject every attempt to subordinate the National Song to communal pressure, political appeasement or narrow vote-bank considerations. 4.
