BJP passes resolution condemning Congress over Vande Mataram

The BJP has passed a resolution regarding the honour and protection of the historical legacy of Vande Mataram. In a social media post, BJP President Nitin Nabin said that the party strongly condemned and unequivocally opposed the Congress Working Committee’s decision to sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at party programmes. He added that the BJP is resolved to reject every attempt to subordinate the National Song to communal pressure, political appeasement or narrow vote-bank considerations.
Nabin said that the party is also resolved to undertake a nationwide campaign through BJP workers to take the history, meaning, national significance and glorious legacy of Vande Mataram to every corner of the country. He said that the BJP regards Vande Mataram as the National Song of India, an expression of reverence for Bharat Mata, a mantra of the freedom struggle and an immortal symbol of India’s national consciousness. The resolution was passed during a meeting of the newly appointed national office-bearers of the BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday.
The party would protect the honour, dignity, heritage and national character of the full, six-stanza Vande Mataram, and reaffirm the Constituent Assembly's 1950 declaration as well as a law passed by Parliament in 2026 granting the national song statutory protection on par with Jana Gana Mana, the resolution said. It added that the CWC's resolution could not override the Constitution and Parliament's law, and that the "political compromise of 1937 cannot override the constitutional decision of 1950 and the 2026 law".
Nabin said the BJP would launch a nationwide campaign to spread the history, meaning, national significance and glorious heritage of Vande Mataram to every corner of India, and would disseminate Mahatma Gandhi's statement describing the song as an "anti-imperialist slogan" associated with the "purest national sentiment". The resolution said the party would bring before the public the historical context behind the restriction on Vande Mataram, including objections raised at the time by the Muslim League and the politics of communal and separatist demands.