Plea in SC terms six-stanza Vande Mataram a โdivisive religious war songโ, a step towards โtheocracyโ
The plea filed by B.D. Borkar, a Phule-Ambedkarite, said a State compulsion expressed through two successive government orders would lead to the โdeepening communal division and conflict in India by outraging the religious and spiritual feelings of minority religionsโ