Impression of ‘Vande Mataram’ on India’s Partition, Claims Amit Shah

The division of ‘Vande Mataram’ track for “politics of appeasement” led to partition of India, Residence Minister Amit Shah stated within the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday (December 9, 2025), as he slammed Opposition for linking the controversy on 150 years of the nationwide track with the upcoming West Bengal elections.

Initiating the controversy within the Home, Mr. Shah stated Vande Mataram was the “mantra” that woke up India’s cultural nationalism, and stays as related in the present day because it was throughout the freedom battle.

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He harassed that the track will stay related within the days to come back as effectively, in taking the nation in direction of Viksit Bharat.

Mr. Shah additionally attacked Congress for questioning the necessity for a debate on Vande Mataram, and accused first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of “dividing” the poem and limiting it to 2 stanzas.

“Yesterday some MPs within the Lok Sabha questioned what’s the want to debate Vande Mataram. The necessity for dialogue…was as related when the track was written, throughout the freedom motion, in the present day, and might be as related in 2047 when the Viksit Bharat could be achieved,” Mr. Shah stated.

“Some individuals are saying Vande Mataram is being mentioned as a result of elections are coming in West Bengal… They’re attempting to cut back the significance of Vande Mataram by linking it with Bengal elections,” he stated.

The Residence Minister urged members to take the spirit of the message of Vande Mataram to the youth of the nation.

He stated the track was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in Bengal, nevertheless it unfold throughout the nation, and have become the mantra for India’s freedom battle.

The Residence Minister stated the track was written years after India tolerated “Islamic assaults”, and the British tried to impose a brand new tradition on the nation.

“The track reestablished the tradition of witnessing nation as a mom. Despite the fact that the (British) authorities tried to ban it, and other people had been crushed and jailed for chanting Vande Mataram, it touched individuals’s hearts and unfold from Kashmir to Kanyakumari,” he stated.

That’s the reason Maharshi Aurobindo stated Vande Mataram is the mantra of India’s awakening.

“India is the one nation whose boundaries haven’t been determined by any act, its borders have been determined by our tradition, and tradition has united it. That’s the reason the concept of cultural nationalism, this cultural nationalism was woke up by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay,” Mr. Shah added.

He additionally accused the Congress and Nehru of ‘dividing’ the track.

“Many members of Congress questioned why the dialogue on Vande Mataram was required, calling it a diversionary tactic. We aren’t frightened of taking over any debate. We don’t stall Parliament, we now have nothing to cover, we’re prepared to debate any subject,” Mr. Shah stated.

“On the fiftieth anniversary of Vande Mataram in 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru divided it into two and restricted it to 2 stanzas. This was the best way Congress honoured Vande Mataram,” he stated, resulting in protests from Opposition MPs.

Mr. Shah referred to as it the start of appeasement politics, and stated it led to partition of India.

“If that they had not divided the track into two for appeasement politics, India would additionally not have been partitioned,” he stated, resulting in extra uproars from Opposition benches.

Mr. Shah added that within the a centesimal 12 months of Vande Mataram, the nation was underneath Emergency.