Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Thursday, hit out at the Congress saying the 'Grand Old Party' laid the foundation for the partition of the country by
dividing Vande Mataram for the appeasement of Muslim. The scathing attack by the Home Minister has come after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Wednesday decided to abide by a 1937 resolution of the party's highest decision-making body on Vande Mataram, saying only two stanzas of the national song will be sung at all party events henceforth. Launching a scathing attack at the Congress, Amit Shah said, "Yesterday, Congress Working Committee took an anti-national decision. Following their 1937 resolution, Congress decided to sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram. I want to remind the nation that in 1937, by dividing Vande Mataram for the appeasement of Muslims, the Congress laid the foundation for the partition of the country." "Today, the Narendra Modi government has corrected the Congress' mistake to strengthen national unity and also given it a legal framework. Congress's decision confirms its policy of appeasement. They have not only insulted this creation of Bankim Babu but also lakhs of people who laid down their lives for the freedom of the country," he said. "Today, the Congress party is implementing its 1937 resolution but rejecting a law made by the Parliament. I am surprised that the Congress party, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, is once again taking forward appeasement politics. The country has once made the mistake of letting Vande Mataram be divided into two parts, and we have faced its consequences," Amit Shah said. Continuing further, the Home Minister said, "Now, the country should come together against this decision of the Congress party and say that their politics of appeasement will not work anymore. BJP condemns this decision of the Congress party."
