Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the year-long commemoration of 150 years of Vande Mataram, Modi said that the same “divisive mindset” continues to challenge the nation even today.

xNew Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a veiled attack on the Congress, said on Friday that important stanzas of the national song Vande Mataram were dropped in 1937, sowing the seeds of partition. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the year-long commemoration of 150 years of Vande Mataram, Modi said that the same “divisive mindset” continues to challenge the nation even today. Marking the occasion, the Prime Minister released a commemorative stamp and coin. “Vande Mataram became the voice of India’s freedom struggle. It expressed the feelings of every Indian. Unfortunately, in 1937, imp

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