"Extreme Appeasement": Amit Shah Blasts Congress Over Full Vande Mataram Snub

Amid the ongoing showdown between the BJP and the Congress over Vande Mataram, Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the opposition party. Shah accused the Congress of reviving its "extreme policy of appeasement" after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) decided to sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, in line with the party's 1936-37 resolution.

Shah said that the decision was not merely symbolic but a repetition of a historical error that had contributed to the partition of India.

"Yesterday, the Congress Party Working Committee took a surprising and anti-national decision. Following their party's resolution of 1937, they have decided to sing only two stanzas of the great song, Vande Mataram. I want to remind the entire country that in 1937, for Muslim appeasement, the Congress party laid the foundation for the partition of the country by dividing Vande Mataram into two. From there, the two-nation theory gained strength and eventually, the country was partitioned and Pakistan was born," Shah said.