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Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were resorting to ‘Vande Mataram’ to divert attention from the core issues. Gehlot wrote on ‘X’ that when due to increasing pollution in Delhi and surrounding areas, the air has become so poisonous that healthy people are falling ill, children and elderly people are struggling to breathe, then the priority of Parliament should have been to discuss ‘clean air’.
He wrote, “But it is extremely unfortunate that the BJP-RSS leadership, surrounded by its own failures, is resorting to ‘Vande Mataram’ to divert attention from the core issues. Ashok Gehlot said that if the NDA government, which pays lip service to the national anthem, had acted in accordance with the spirit described in this song, then today this poison would not have dissolved in the breath of millions of people.
Discussion on Vande Mataram due to Bengal elections
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Modi and the government of committing the grave sin of disputing Vande Mataram and claimed that the national anthem was discussed in the House to divert attention from burning issues and due to the West Bengal Assembly elections to be held in a few months. While participating in the discussion on Vande Mataram in the House, he also said that there should be no need for discussion on the national song because it is present in every part of the country and is connected to the spirit of the country.
Sarcasm on Prime Minister Modi in Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha member from Wayanad, Kerala took a dig at Prime Minister Modi in Lok Sabha and said that he gives good speeches but is weak in facts. Priyanka Gandhi said that instead of repeatedly accusing Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the ruling party should discuss it in the Parliament so that everything can be done once and this entire chapter ends forever and unemployment, inflation and other challenges can be discussed.
Government wants to hide the reality
Amidst the interference of some members of the ruling party, he said, today’s discussion is being held only to divert attention because this government wants to hide the reality. The youth are troubled, papers are being leaked, there is unemployment, there is inflation, why are we not discussing it? Why are you not discussing the messing with reservation? He said, there is pollution, but we are sitting in this House and talking about small things. You talk about the past, not the real problems, this is a small matter.
politics of diverting attention from issues
Priyanka Gandhi said, the truth is that their rule is a rule of repression, their politics is politics of show off, politics of event management. This is politics from election to election, politics of diverting attention from the issues. He told the ruling party that Vande Mataram is a plea for those hopes which your government is rejecting every day. The Congress leader said, by disputing this great mantra of the soul of your country, you are committing a great sin. Congress will not be involved in this sin.
After all, what was PM Modi shying away from?
Priyanka Gandhi claimed, in the program organized on the anniversary of Vande Mataram, Prime Minister Modi said in his speech that in 1896, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore ji sang the song ‘Vande Mataram’ for the first time in a convention. But the Prime Minister could not tell that it was a Congress session. After all, what was Modi shying away from? He said that Vande Mataram is sung collectively in every session of Congress, but BJP should tell whether this happens in its session or not.
