While the BJP framed the discussion as a necessary reckoning with history and the freedom movement’s legacy, the Opposition ...

A special parliamentary debate on 'Vande Mataram' has begun, tied to the song's 150th anniversary. While the government ...

Rajya Sabha–nominated MP Sudha Murty on Tuesday, 9 December, urged the Union government to make the national song Vande ...

PM Modi said Vande Mataram was a mantra which gave energy and showed the path for sacrifice during India's independence struggle. He said the British divided Bengal in 1905, but Vande Mataram stood ...

New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI) BJP President J P Nadda on Thursday asserted in the Rajya Sabha that the national song Vande Mataram is linked to "nationalism" and the country should take a resolve to accord ...

DMK MP A Raja claimed that Vande Mataram was historically used to sideline Muslims, framing it as a Hindu-only anthem. He ...

Home Minister Shah said both members of the Gandhi family were absent from the house when discussions were being held on ...

With the Ram temple built and Article 370 abrogated, the party appears to be expanding the ambit of its cultural politics, attempting to turn its long-held ideological positions into national debates.

Earlier, Vishal had criticized the parliamentary discourse, using irony to question why symbolic nationalism often dominates ...

The standing of Vande Matram in the collective consciousness was never in doubt. There is a however a case to extend ...

From coastal Andhra Pradesh to Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab, from bonfires in UP to midnight pledges in Chennai and Lahore, ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh proposed adding a fundamental duty to the Constitution, mandating equal respect for 'Vande Mataram' as the national anthem. He accused Congress of communalizing the song ...