BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday strongly defended the national song, Vande Mataram, calling attempts to communalise or criticise it “a form of criminal anarchy.”Speaking ...

The Centre's January 28 order mandating that all six stanzas of the national song be sung at official functions breaks with ...

So far, at all public functions, we only get to hear the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram. Some of the later parts of the ...

BJP leaders including Ravi Kishan and Keshav Prasad Maurya have supported the MHA's notification on singing all six verses of ...

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh Christian Leaders Forum (APCLF) has expressed strong objection to the Centre’s directive to ...

The Centre on Wednesday issued fresh guidelines making the playing of Vande Mataram compulsory at government programmes, ...

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday mounted a strong defence of the national song Vande Mataram, condemning efforts to question or communalise it as “criminal anarchy.” ...

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday issued new rules mandating that the national song, Vande Mataram, be played ...

A political controversy has erupted over the full singing of Vande Mataram, with BJP leaders defending the move and calling objections condemnable, while the Samajwadi Party said it respects the natio ...

According to the Centre, the move is intended to standardise respect for the national song and remove what they describe as an artificial distinction between "acceptable" and "excluded" verses.

The National Song must be played during the unfurling of the Tricolour, the arrival and departure of the President at formal state functions, and before and after the President addresses, among others ...

Christian leaders in Andhra Pradesh oppose mandatory singing of all six stanzas of Vande Mataram, citing religious and constitutional concerns.