'Anti-national decision': Amit Shah on Congress's Vande Mataram stand

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday criticised the Congress over its decision to sing only the first two stanzas of the national song Vande Mataram, calling the move "anti-national."“Yesterday, the Congress Working Committee took an anti-national decision. Following its 1937 resolution, the Congress decided to sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram. I want to remind the nation that in 1937, by dividing Vande Mataram for the appeasement of Muslims, the Congress laid the foundation for the partition of the country,” Shah told ANI in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu.He further stated that the Narendra Modi government, on the other hand, had corrected the Congress' “mistake” and given Vande Mataram a legal framework.“Congress's decision confirms its policy of appeasement. They have not only insulted this creation of Bankim Babu but also lakhs of people who laid down their lives for the freedom of the country.