Overview
- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced the move at an Ekta Yatra in Gorakhpur, saying daily recitation would instill reverence and pride for the nation.
- Education officials said a directive will soon ask institutions to include the song in morning assemblies alongside the national anthem, though no notification has been issued yet.
- Muslim leaders sharply criticized compulsory singing, with Maulana Haleem Ullah Kasmi urging parents to withdraw children if forced to participate and SP figures questioning its link to patriotism.
- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan called for collective singing in classrooms to become a lasting tradition in universities and schools.
- The announcement comes during a year‑long 150th‑anniversary commemoration launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the Congress demands an apology over his remarks about 1937 decisions on the song and Partition.