Ahead of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee was seen 'inventing' new history and claiming that Mohandas Karamchand...
Current opposition to Vande Mataram reflects long-standing communal objections that once shaped Congress decisions, revealing how religious sensitivities still determine cultural boundaries and revive ideological tensions that historically empowered separatist politics and weakened India’s civilisational cohesion.
Many of the Muslim leaders in British-ruled India, who labelled Vande Mataram as some sort of ‘anti-Muslim’ or ‘Hindu nationalist’ song, ended up being the proponents of the separatist agenda that culminated in the creation of Pakistan. These Islamists not only derided Vande Mataram as idolatrous and anti-Muslim but also argued that the deification of the motherland amounts to ‘shirk’.
As Nehru entered mainstream Congress politics, his stature grew with time. Even before independence, he had become so influential that Congress policies and their implementation began to revolve around him. This trend can be seen as early as the 1930s.
It can be stated that Gandhi's 'liberal' and pluralistic values took over his Hindu mind which believed cow protection to be the biggest service Hindus could ever adopt. Gandhi failed to stand by Hindus who demanded a ban on the slaughter of cows at the hands of Muslims while he himself believed that slaughtering the cows was one of the biggest sins anybody ever could commit.
This documentation of the less-known facts about direct action day and the way it still persists is an attempt to keep the sufferers informed about the causes and effects of the wounds they have sustained; because it is the only way they shall find a way to not let it happen ever again.