The Vande Mataram debate generated a lot of heat in Rajya Sabha as the two biggest parties, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress, continued to accuse each other of anti-nationalism. Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah led the debate on Vande Mataram for long and blamed the Congress for India’s partition by saying that the ‘politics of appeasement’ led to the division of the national song and thereby the country’s partition. He also accused the party of imposing Emergency at a time when India was celebrating the song’s 100th anniversary.

Amit Shah blames Congress for India’s partition

“When Vande Mataram was limited after it completed 50 years, that is when appeasement started. That appeasement led to the partition of the country. Had the Congress not d

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