Vande Maataram Centenary celebrations

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Vande Maataram Centenary celebrations Both BJP and Congress leaders are not aware that there is no event that happened 100 years ago on this day as far as Vande Maataram is concerned. Or these leaders deliberately mislead the people of this country on a sacred issue like this. Can we say that these leaders who talked so much politics on this issue subsequently , are Nationalists. They made mockery of Vande Maataram. Even veteran leaders of BJP did not know about the National song.Even Media has played its role on this issue. It is pitiable that those who have to guide the people of this country are busy in playing needless politics which are not in anyway solving the problems of common people of this country. 5:53:57 PM Posted By TLN Sundara Raja Comments (2) Politics Comments jj Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:20:04 PM TLN Raja,U R absolutely correct, our Indians fellow must understand with this type of dirty politics. K. Venugopal Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:59:55 PM What was celebrated was the centenary of Vande Mataram being sung at the AICC in 1905. Wasn't that a significant event, considering that the session took place in the gathering momentum of the reaction to the preparation for partition of Bengal? The question to be asked is, what role did Vande Mataram play in reversing the first partition of Bengal? How was Vande Mataram able to arouse Hindus and Muslims equally at that time? Was our inability to reverse the partition of India because by then the Congress (in which Nehru had the upper hand, which hand was not there during the first Bengal partition) had compromised on the song and truncated its singing to appease the Muslims, who by such appeasement had moved away so much from the spirit of the first Bengal partition days and declared that they are a separate nation?