New Delhi, Dec. 8 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a charged tone for the winter session of Parliament, using a special Lok Sabha debate on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram on Monday to launch a cryptic but pointed attack on the Congress and the historical decisions that led to Partition.
Leading the 10-hour debate, PM Modi described the patriotic song as the "emotional and ideological backbone" of the freedom struggle, but immediately pivoted to questioning its treatment in the lead-up to Independence.
The Prime Minister raised a question for the nation: "If Vande Mataram was so popular, why was injustice meted out to it? Why was it betrayed?"He then directly leveled the historical charge against the Congress party: "On October ...