We will perform group singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ outside the offices of MLAs who oppose it: Mangal Prabhat Lodha

Minister for Skill Development, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, on Monday announced that group singing of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ will be held outside the residences of Congress and Samajwadi Party MLAs—Aslam Shaikh, Amin Patel and Abu Azmi—who had either opposed or disrespected national sentiments in the past.

The Minister recalled that Congress MLAs Amin Patel and Aslam Shaikh in the past had written to the President of India seeking clemency for Yakub Memon, one of the convicts in the Mumbai bomb blasts case, while Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi had recently opposed the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’, a song that pays homage to the motherland.

‘Vande Mataram’ completes 150 years on November 7, and to mark this milestone, a celebration has been launched, under which group singing of the