‘If It’s A Crime, Gandhi, Vajpayee Are Also Guilty’: Kharge On Vande Matram Row

‘Gandhi, Nehru, Patel sang the same Vande Mataram’: Kharge hits back at BJP amid row

The BJP had criticised the Congress after a video from the party headquarters showed Kharge and Sonia Gandhi speaking while Vande Mataram was being performed during the August 15 Independence Day programme. The BJP accused Congress leadership of disrespecting the national song and sought an apology. The issue remained part of the political discourse in Goa as two stanzas of Vande Mataram were sung in the event attended by Kharge.

‘If It’s A Crime, Gandhi, Vajpayee Are Also Guilty’: Kharge On Vande Matram Row

<p class="isSelectedEnd">Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has hit out at the BJP amid the ongoing controversy over the singing of the national song <em>Vande Mataram</em>, saying the party's criticism would also implicate leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Kharge said he had sung the same version of <em>Vande Mataram</em> that Gandhi, Nehru and Va…

"Book Mahatma Gandhi Too": Congress Chief On Complaint Over Vande Mataram Row

A complaint was filed against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over an alleged attempt to disrupt the singing of Vande Mataram at Congress headquarters

‘I sang the version of Vande Mataram sung by Gandhi, Nehru’: Kharge defends Congress’s 90-year-old tradition, hits back at BJP

Kharge's remarks come a day after he attended a Congress booth-level convention in Goa, where Congress workers sung only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram.

Kharge rebuts BJP criticism over ‘incomplete’ Vande Mataram rendition

The Congress president said he sang the version followed by leaders including Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘We Sang What Gandhi and Vajpayee Sang’: Kharge Defends Congress Amid Vande Mataram Row - Goemkarponn

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has defended the party’s position amid the growing political controversy over the rendition of Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day, saying the party performed the same version that had been sung by Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Kharge said the version performed at the August 15 event had been used by the Congress for nearly 18 years and q…