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Rajendra Vishwanath Arleka said the circumstances in which Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay composed Vande Mataram, and the reasons why Rabindranath Tagore regarded it as the song of the nation should be brought before the younger generation through research.
The plea filed by B.D. Borkar, a Phule-Ambedkarite, said a State compulsion expressed through two successive government orders would lead to the ‘deepening communal division and conflict in India by outraging the religious and spiritual feelings of minority religions’
The controversy arose when a recorded version of Vande Mataram was played at the beginning of the meeting, following the rendition of the State anthem
Vande Mataram’s rendition must be in the spirit of “unity in diversity”
The dispute began when Congress councillors demanded that a separate resolution be introduced on the singing of the national song
Omar Abdullah’s remarks come after senior Congress leaders questioned him and his National Conference party leaders who stood for all stanzas of the song during its rendition at a ceremony of on September 7 in Srinagar
However, the entire six stanzas will be played or sung in functions involving the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister, or Governor, the order further states
The full version of Vande Mataram sits uneasily with the syncretic and pluralist ethos that our freedom fighters envisioned, the Congress general secretary said