Vande Mataram row: Congress hits back at PM Modi with 'proof', says CWC followed Tagore's advice

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for linking the 1937 Congress Working Committee (CWC) statement on Vande Mataram to the partition of India. Ramesh, in a post on X, shared excerpts from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi to counter the Prime Minister’s remarks. According to it, the CWC had issued a statement on October 28, 1937, regarding Vande Mataram, influenced by Rabindranath Tagore’s advice. The statement clarified that only the first two stanzas of the song should be sung at national gatherings, as they celebrated the beauty and spirit of India without any religious references. The rest of the verses, which contained religious imagery, were rarely used. The committee acknowledged that Muslim leaders had