Mumbai, Apr 3: Days after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' remarks, a top functionary of the organisation has said that 'Vande Mataram' is the real national anthem as opposed to the 'Constitutionally-mandated' Jana Gana Mana.
"Jana Gana Mana is today our national anthem. It has to be respected. There is no reason why it should evoke any other sentiment," RSS General Secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said.
"But it is the national anthem as decided by the Constitution. If one considers the true meaning, then Vande Mataram is the national anthem," he said on Friday at the Deendayal Upadhyay Research Institute here.
"We consider things created due to the Constitution to be national," Joshi said.
"When was Jana Gana Mana written? It was written some time back. But the sentiments expressed in Jana Gana Mana have been expressed keeping the state in view," he said.
"However, the sentiments expressed in Vande Mataram denote the nation's character and style. This is the difference between the two songs. Both deserve respect," Joshi said.
'Vande Mataram', literally, "I praise thee, Mother", is a poem by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. A hymn to the 'Mother Land', it played a vital role in the Indian independence movement. In 1950, the song's first two verses were given the official status of the "national song", distinct from the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana.
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Chaddi group will never say the trut behind it formation.
Be it nationalism or patriotism.You were created to spoil the freedom fights in favor of British company.
The real name is ROYAL SECRET SERVICE.which is to provide secrets of our own fellow indians who fights against Britishraj, just like Mossad of Israle. Now you talk n teach about about nationalism, shame on you.
Yes these mentally sick group may decide braminism is the national religion. Non sense comments from all angle - rss is TWO face devil creating communal tension.
LOL... Bhakts confused again. So confused that (in that pic) they are listening to this news and scratching their Butts with that flag..!
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