New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday led the discussions on 150 years of Vande Mataram in the Lok Sabha. The discussion comes amidst a political row between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress after the Prime Minister accused the Congress of removing some stanzas from the national song in 1937, which he claimed eventually “sowed the seeds" of the Partition of India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the Lok Sabha on Monday amid chants of Vande Mataram. During his address, the Prime Minister launched a scathing attack on former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

PM Modi stated that Nehru followed Jinnah in opposing the song in order to appease “Muslim friends”.

He said that in 1905, Mahatma Gandhi saw Vande Mataram as a national an

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