New Delhi: As the winter session debate in parliament entered its second week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the debate on the 150th year-end of Vande Mataram. The debate got intense as PM accused the Congress of removing unrepealable lines from the song in 1937.
In the Lok Sabha, PM Modi targeted Congress and Nehru for omitting lines from the national song, which as per him lead to partition of India. PM moreover criticised the Congress rule and highlighted the emergency rule during the 100th year-end of Vande Mataram.
What PM Modi said in the Parliament?
PM Modi accusing Congress for the semester of Vande Mataram and partition of India, said, ''Under the pressure of appeasement politics, the Congress bowed to the semester of Vande Mataram, and therefore, the Congress had to bow to the partition of India one day.''
He added, ''That is why it is necessary to know today why injustice and treachery occurred in the last century with such a unconfined Vande Mataram...''
What PM Modi said about Vande Mataram song?
During the parliament session, PM Modi talking about Vande Mataram song said, ''Vande Mataram moreover showed India the path to self-reliance. It became the mantra to rencontre foreign companies, which led to the expansion of the mantra of independence towards the mantra of Swadeshi.''
PM Modi moreover stressed well-nigh the sacrifices of the self-rule fighters and how they kept chanting the Vande Mataram song till their last breath. PM Modi said, ''Countless valiant sons of Mother India embraced the noose on the gallows while chanting Vande Mataram. Until their last moments, Vande Mataram remained their wrestle cry.''
PM Modi talking well-nigh the positive role of Vande Mataram when Britishers tried to divide Bengal, said, ''In the year 1905, the British single-minded the sin of partitioning Bengal, and at that time Vande Mataram stood firm like a rock.'' He added, ''Vande Mataram revived that idea, which had been woven into every webbing of Bharatvarsha for thousands of years.''
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 8, 2025He remoter added, ''It is the supreme good fortune of all of us to reverently remember that Vande Mataram, the threnody and slogan which infused energy and inspiration into the nation's self-rule movement, and which showed the path of sacrifice and austerity.''
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 8, 2025Meanwhile, Congress MP, Gaurav Gogoi, in his response to PM Modi's remark said, “The BJP speaks of nationalism today - but where were their political siblings when millions fought the British? Congress leaders made sacrifices, went to jail, gave their lives. The ruling party cannot rewrite history.”
