New Delhi: Accusing the Congress of removing some stanzas from the national song, ‘Vande Mataram’, for its “politics of appeasement” that eventually led to the “compromise of the Partition of India”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked India’s first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru. He alleged that Mohammed Ali Jinnah opposed those stanzas, and Nehru agreed with his sentiments.

Both Houses are holding a special discussion on ‘Vande Mataram’, composed by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1875, on the occasion of the national song completing its 150 years. Modi, opening the discussion, slammed the Congress and Nehru for doing ‘tukde tukde’ of the song. He asked why the national song was ‘betrayed’, despite being the most powerful symbol of India’s resistance and unity.

The PM’s reference to the ‘ Va

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