Vande Mataram Not Played at MP Secretariat on 1st Jan: BJP Says Kamal Nath 'Reversed' Shivraj-Era Norm, Congress Denies

Bhopal, January 1: Madhya Pradesh state minister PC Sharma has said that  investigation will be held as to why was Vande Mataram not sung in the Mantralaya or secretariat on January 1, as is the norm. The previous government under Shivraj Singh Chouhan had ordered that Vande Mataram be sung in Mantralaya on the 1st of every month. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Birth Anniversary: Know Everything About Sahitya Samrat Who Gave us Vande Matram.

However, the BJP has accused that the newly formed Congress government under Kamal Nath has ordered the cancellation of the previous government's order of singing Vande Mataram on the 1st of every month.

However, minister PC Sharma, speaking on the issue, said that "Vande Matram belongs to both Congress and country. There’s no question of not singing it, we’ll find the reason & correct it".

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The controversy over the singing of Vande Mataram is not new. In May last year, there was a nationwide controversy after the management of Dyal Singh College had renamed the college as “Vande Mataram College”. Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal had said that the decision of the management of Dyal Singh College to rename the college as “Vande Mataram College”, would hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community.

Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr B R Ambedkar and chief of Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh had alleged that those who sing Vande Mataram are anti-India. "If I sing Jana Gana Mana then I am anti-India and if I sing Vande Mataram then I am a true Indian? Who are you to give these certificates? I allege that those who sing Vande Mataram are anti-India," the leader had said in October, 2018.

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