Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said Partition of India would not have happened had the national song, Vande Mataram, not truncated by then Congress president Jawaharlal Nehru.

Initiating the debate on ‘The 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram’ in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Shah took a veiled dig at Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who had claimed in the Lower House on Monday that the debate on Vande Mataram had been timed with the upcoming West Bengal elections in mind.

“Some people are trying to belittle the glorification of Vande Mataram by linking it to the upcoming elections in West Bengal. Vande Mataram was not restricted to Bengal...Wherever in the world there were lovers of freedom, Vande Mataram was on their lips, even in secret meetings. Even today, when a soldier on the b

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