New Delhi: The BJP government has committed a “sin” by turning Vande Mataram into a subject of dispute, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Monday, challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that Jawaharlal Nehru took the lead in adopting its truncated version as the national song disregarding the views of leaders such as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Speaking in Lok Sabha, Priyanka lambasted the BJP-led government, accusing it of coming up with the idea of holding a Parliamentary debate on Vande Mataram keeping next year’s assembly elections in West Bengal in mind.

She claimed the government also wanted to divert people’s attention from “burning issues” by forcing them to continue to gaze into the past instead of resolving the issues of the present and shape their future. Sh

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