Skipping of Vande Mataram rendition at I-Day function roils Kerala politics

BJP State president calls it a ‘serious constitutional and legal issue,’ says State government should not take a stand on issues related to nationalism by bowing to political pressure. CPI State secretary Binoy Viswam questions the full rendition of Vande Mataram at the AICC headquarters and in Congress-ruled States

The BJP said it will challenge the state government both legally and politically over the exclusion, describing it as a direct insult to the Constitution

NEW DELHI: A political row erupted after a video from the Independence Day programme at Congress headquarters showed Congress Parliamentary Party (CCP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi gesturing and engaged in an exchange of comments with party president Mallikarjun Kharge, drawing the attention of others, including Rahul Gand