Can controversy on Vande Mataram finally end?
The Congress party needed a national anthem. It formed a committee to select one. Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore were the members of the panel. On Tagore’s recommendations, the first two paragraphs of Vande Mataram were picked as National Song. These paragraphs sang praise to the nation’s land, rivers, gardens etc. The panel left out the rest of the paragraphs as there was mention of Hindu deities.
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