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Subhas Chandra Bose
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No.6582
Subhas Chandra Bose, while stressing on the issue of Hindu Muslim unity wrote to Nehru on 17 th October
1937:
“Communal Muslims are in the habit of raising bogeys from time to time – sometimes it is music before mosques, sometimes inadequate jobs for Muslims and at present it is ‘Bande Mataram’. ‘Bande Mataram’ has suddenly sprung into importance probably because it was sung in Legislature thereby demonstrating Congress victory. While I would gladly
try to meet all doubts and difficulties raised by nationalist Muslims, I do not feel inclined to attach much importance to what the communalists
say. If you give them the fullest satisfaction on the question of ‘Bande Mataram’ today, they will not be long in bringing up other questions tomorrow, simply in order to pander to communal feeling and embarrass
the Congress.”
However, it was Nehru who ultimately decided, as the Congress President, that only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram will be sung and since then it became a practice among the Congressmen. Nehru had consciously conceded to a communal demand in spite of the warning by Subhas Bose and no doubt three
years later came the demand of Pakistan. How relevant was Bose’s observations you can judge yourself in the contemporary scenario where the fanatic Islamists leave no stone unturned to attack Vande Mataram today.
We do have evidences that Maulana Azad admired Vande Mataram after listening and Jinnah too before 1937 was present on Congress platforms where it was sung !
Pic is of Ghadar revolutionaries magazine in America of 1914 ! On left and right at top is written
Vande Mataram in Urdu !
