Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, BJP to start nationwide Vande campaign
NEW DELHI: BJP cited Mahatma Gandhi's "we have fallen on evil days" lament over the opposition built up against Vande Mataram Saturday to set the stage for an intense political battle with Congress and the wider 'secular' class for their objections to the national song's full version by announcing a nationwide campaign.
The campaign, approved at a meeting of the new office-bearers under party chief Nitin Nabin, will focus on the song's association with freedom struggle, opposition by Pakistan's founder M A Jinnah and other Muslim hardliners which led Congress to prune it and "communal pressure or narrow vote-bank considerations" driving the current protests against the national song.
The campaign, approved at a meeting of the new office-bearers under party chief Nitin Nabin, will focus on the song's association with freedom struggle, opposition by Pakistan's founder M A Jinnah and other Muslim hardliners which led Congress to prune it and "communal pressure or narrow vote-bank considerations" driving the current protests against the national song.
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