Stepping up its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Vande Mataram row, the Congress Sunday claimed that the PM has insulted the Congress Working Committee of 1937, which issued a statement on the song, as also Rabindranath Tagore, and said he should fight his political battles on current issues of daily concern.

Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, said that the prime minister insulted the CWC and Tagore is shocking but not surprising since the RSS had played no role in our Freedom Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi.

The opposition party’s attack came after the prime minister had said Friday that important stanzas of the national song, Vande Mataram, were dropped in 1937, which sowed the seeds of the partition, and asserted that such a divisive m

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