The BJP-led Uttar Pradesh will make the singing and rendition of national song Vande Mataram compulsory in all schools and colleges of the state. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made the announcement in Gorakhpur on Monday.

He was presiding over an event to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The anniversary coincides with the commemoration of 150 years of the national song.

Noting that no individual, faith or community was greater than the country, Yogi harked back to pre-Independence times to accuse the then Congress of dilutions in the original text of Vande Mataram, a poem which Bankim Chandra Chatterjee first wrote in 1875. It was later published as part of Chatterjee’s epic novel Anandmath in 1882.

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