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Around a week before the nation on 7 November started celebrating the 150th anniversary of India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram', , the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) called upon the nation and the society to celebrate the spirit of this song over the next year.

Spelling out the official stand of the RSS on this issue after the three-day meeting (30 Oct-1 Nov) of one of its highest decision-making bodies, Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal(ABKM) at Jabalpur, its general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said, “At the auspicious moment of 150th year of commemoration of a divine (an immortal) song Vande Mataram - a prayer to Motherland that awakened all round nat

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