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BJP launches nationwide drive on full national song
Times of India··23 Aug
On 22 August 2026, BJP office-bearers under president Nitin Nabin adopted a four-page resolution and approved a nationwide campaign on the full six-stanza Vande Mataram. The move followed the Congress Working Committee's 19 August decision to sing only the first two stanzas at party events. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the party office to meet the new team.
Prism
What It Means For You
- If you attend a Congress programme, the CWC has said only the first two stanzas will be sung there.
- Anyone at a BJP or official event should note the party is now running a drive for the full six stanzas and cites a 2026 law on insults to the song.
- If you are a student in the youth outreach from 17 September, that month-long calendar is the first named window for the campaign.
What's Happening
- Nabin said the issue was about India's honour, not one party's programme, after the first meeting of the new office-bearers.
- The resolution also named M.A. Jinnah and the 1937 pruning as the historical turn BJP wants the campaign to explain.
- Congress has tied its two-stanza rule to the 1937 working-committee decision, not to the 1950 Constituent Assembly listing.
How A 1937 Cut Still Shapes A Campaign
- In 1937 the Congress Working Committee adopted the first two stanzas for party use after objections to later verses.
- BJP argues the 1950 status of the National Song and the 2026 statute outrank that party resolution.
- The youth pitch follows paper-leak protests that made Gen Z a mobilisation target for several parties.
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