NEW DELHI: BJP national working president Nitin Nabin launched a blistering attack on the Congress, alleging that the opposition party’s decision to sing only the first two stanzas of “Vande Mataram” at its programmes exposes what he called the party’s “hunger for that vote bank before which it has repeatedly pawned the nation’s self-respect”.
He said the Congress Working Committee’s (CWC) move was “not merely a political defence, but proof” of this pattern, and claimed that “the Congress has now become the new Muslim League of today”.
“The Congress has now formalised its insult into a resolution. Its working committee has decided that only the first two stanzas of ‘Vande Mataram’ will be sung at Congress forums. When, just a few days ago, this same insult had been exposed in the conduct of an individual, the Congress had dismissed it as a coincidence. Today, that very insult has become the Congress’s policy,” Nabin posted on X, referring to the controversy over Congress defying the Centre’s Vande Mataram protocol.
“This insult to the sacred invocation of ‘Bharat Mata’ is a contempt for those thousands of martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the nation, keeping this very song alive in their consciousness. This is not merely a political defence, but proof of the hunger for that vote bank before which the Congress has repeatedly pawned the nation’s self-respect. The Congress has now become the new Muslim League of today,” he added.
