Against the backdrop of heated exchanges between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over India’s national song, a smiling Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday had a message on her 79th birthday - "Vande Mataram" and "Jai Hind."

The timing of Sonia Gandhi’s message coincided with the second day of the discussion on Vande Mataram in Parliament. On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi blew the lid open on Jawaharlal Nehru’s letter to Subhash Chandra Bose regarding Vande Mataram.

PM Modi accused India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, of retaining only two stanzas of the song in a bid to avoid "irritating Muslims," drawing swift counter-responses from Congress leaders including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Mallikarjun Kharge.

With both sides trading accusations over their resp

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