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New Delhi: As India celebrates 150 years of Vande Mataram, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge strongly criticised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing them of ignoring national symbols while claiming to represent nationalism.

Kharge said, “It is extremely ironic that those who today claim to be the self-appointed custodians of nationalism - RSS and BJP - have never sung Vande Mataram or our national anthem Jana Gana Mana in their branches or offices.”

He pointed out that instead of singing songs that represent the nation, the RSS prefers its own organisational hymn. “Instead, they keep singing ‘Namaste Sada Vatsale,’ which is not a song of the nation but one that glorifies the

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