Five-day campaign to protest limiting ‘Vande Mataram’ rendition

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B.Y. Vijayendra | Photo Credit: File Photo

The BJP will organise a five-day padayatra across all 224 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka from Tuesday, September 15, to protest the State government’s decision to limit Vande Mataram to two stanzas at official events, party State president B.Y. Vijayendra said on Saturday.

He said party workers and members of the public would undertake the foot march and meet Tahsildars and Deputy Commissioners to submit memoranda demanding that the government withdraw its decision.

He criticised Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s decision, taken at a recent Cabinet meeting, and said, “Let Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar learn a lesson from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is in favour of following the Centre’s decision to sing all six stanzas,” he said.

The Congress government in Karnataka has ordered that only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram be sung at State programmes, except those attended by the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister or Governor.

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