The three-week-long Winter Session of Parliament will begin on Monday, December 1, with discussions on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and “Vande Mataram,” and bills on nuclear energy and higher education expected to be the legislature’s focus.
The government intends to begin the Winter Session with a full-day discussion on the “Vande Mataram” as the country commemorates 150 years of the national song. The idea is to discuss the full recitation of the national song after Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that the removal of “significant verses” from the song in 1937 led to India‘s partition.
“In 1937, significant verses of ‘Vande Mataram’, the very essence of its spirit, were removed. Stanzas of ‘Vande Mataram’ were broken up. This removal sowed the seeds for the eventual partition of the country. Today’s generation needs to understand why such injustice was committed against this great mantra of nation-building. Because that same divisive mindset continues to pose a major challenge for the nation even today,” the Prime Minister had said on November 7. Officials say the aim is to remind young people of Vande Mataram’s history and its role in the freedom movement.
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