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Former minister B Ramanath Rai has urged the state government to take legal action against Uttara Kannada BJP MP Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri for making remarks that allegedly insult the national anthem— Jana Gana Mana.

Rai said that Kageri, in a recent public statement, had claimed that Jana Gana Mana — India’s national anthem — was written “to welcome the British.”

Terming this statement as “deeply misleading and disrespectful,” Rai demanded that the government act against the MP under the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, which prescribes imprisonment for up to three years, a fine, or both for such offences, he told reporters in Mangaluru.

Rai reminded that Jana Gana Mana was composed by Rabindranath Tagore on December 11,

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