‘Should not have played to BJP’s strength’: Congress unease over ‘Vande Mataram’ stand

NewsPolitical Pulse'Should not have played to BJP’s strength': Congress unease over 'Vande Mataram' stand

Premium This comes barely a week after the full national song was sung at official Independence Day events in three Congress-ruled states. AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi, Congress MPs KC Venugopal, Priyanka Gandhi, and Jairam Ramesh, party leader Ambika Soni and others during the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting at Indira Bhawan, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI Photo/Amit) 4 min readNew DelhiAug 25, 2026 11:06 PM IST First published on: Aug 21, 2026 at 04:52 AM IST A day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) reaffirmed that only the first two stanzas of ‘Vande Mataram‘ would be sung at party events, there is a growing sense of unease in sections of the party that believe the leadership should have handled the matter with more nuance. Noted lawyer and the Congress’s legal wing head Abhishek Manu Singhvi told The Indian Express that he had given the party leadership his legal opinion, interpreting the law “as it stands today”, and drew a distinction between public and private functions.