Overview
- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said all educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh will require the singing or recitation of the national song to instill respect for the motherland.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the year-long 150th anniversary observance on November 7 with a commemorative stamp and coin and said dropping key stanzas in 1937 had sown the seeds of partition.
- Congress leaders, led by Jairam Ramesh, accused the Prime Minister of insulting the 1937 Congress Working Committee and Rabindranath Tagore, pointing to records showing the CWC endorsed only the first two stanzas after consulting Tagore.
- Indian diplomatic missions and government bodies organized coordinated mass renditions worldwide, while multiple Railway divisions hosted events where participants sang the full version.
- In West Bengal, tensions escalated as the TMC and BJP traded charges over Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Governor C. V. Ananda Bose prepared to lead a ‘Vande Mataram’ march in Kolkata.