Overview
- At Friday’s 150th‑anniversary launch, where he released a commemorative stamp and coin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said dropping key stanzas in 1937 "sowed the seeds of Partition."
- Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh called the remarks an insult to the 1937 Congress Working Committee and to Rabindranath Tagore.
- The party posted the CWC statement recorded in Gandhi’s Collected Works, which recommends singing only the first two stanzas at national gatherings.
- It also cited Tagore’s letter to Jawaharlal Nehru affirming the first two verses and dissociating from later stanzas that carried theological imagery.
- Congress demanded an apology and accused the prime minister of deflecting from issues like unemployment and inequality, and no apology or retraction was reported.