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The minority song for BJP

BJP has put forward its Muslim faces to intensify confrontation with the ulemas and Arjun Singh on Vande Mataram controversy.

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NEW DELHI: The BJP has put forward its Muslim faces to intensify the confrontation with the ulemas and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on the Vande Mataram controversy. The party is gearing up to become protector of the national song, which was first sung by Rabindranath Tagore at the Congress session in Kolkata in 1986 and adopted at the Banaras session in 1906. 

The main Opposition party’s Minority Morcha has sought permission from Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chaterjee for reciting the national song standing next to Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Parliament on September 5, the day in which centenary celebrations of the song concludes. Over 200 Muslim workers will participate under the banner of BJP Minority Morcha.

The Speaker’s office is yet to respond to it on the subject. When contacted by DNA, the Speaker’s office refused to comment. Lok Sabha secretariat sources said, “The rules did not permit such things.

The BJP leaders have apparently got a hint of the nature of response that they could get from the Lok Sabha Speaker. They are planning to get a group of Muslim workers under the banner of Minority Morcha to march from India Gate to the Parliament House singing Vande Mataram on that date.”

BJP-ruled states Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have made singing of the song compulsory in all educational institutions including madrasas on September 5. It is not sure how the state governments will ensure compliance of the order.  The BJP national executive member Arif Mohammad Khan has done an Urdu translation of the song. The original Vande Matram is in Sanskrit.

“I did it after I heard the objections to it. I did it not as a BJP member, but as a concerned citizen of the country. Surely those who are raising objections must have read the song and understood it,” he said.

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