Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi on Monday dismissed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that Jawaharlal Nehru had written to Subhash Chandra Bose saying the origins of Vande Mataram may incite Muslims, stating that the Prime Minister had selectively quoted from the letter during his address in the Lok Sabha earlier.

Citing the 1937 letter written by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Priyanka Gandhi said, "The so-called objection against the remaining stanzas of Vandra Mataram was manufactured by the communalists." She went on to say that PM Modi did not mention this part in his speech.

Earlier in the day, PM Modi, citing Nehru's letter to Subhash Chandra Bose, said that the first Indian Prime Minister had accepted Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sentiments on Vand

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