Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 7 launched a year-long programme marking 150 years of Vande Mataram and released a commemorative stamp and coin.
- Congress cited the Congress Working Committee’s October 1937 statement—issued after consulting Rabindranath Tagore—to rebut Modi’s claim linking the omission of later stanzas to partition, and it demanded an apology.
- Indian diplomatic missions from Chile to Canada hosted mass singalongs, and Indian Railways divisions staged collective renditions, including full-version performances at major stations.
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that singing Vande Mataram will be made compulsory in all educational institutions in the state.
- Political friction widened as the TMC and BJP clashed in West Bengal over the song and the national anthem, and a Karnataka BJP leader retracted a remark suggesting Vande Mataram should have been the anthem.