Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday (December 22, 2025) said that the Congress — from whose platform Vande Mataram was first sung — “strangled the Constitution" by imposing the Emergency in the country during the centenary celebrations of the national song.”
Initiating a discussion on Vande Mataram in the state Assembly on the second day of the Winter Session, Mr. Adityanath said, “When the occasion of the centenary of Vande Mataram came, the same Congress from whose platform Vande Mataram was first sung, imposed the Emergency in the country in 1975 and throttled the Constitution.”
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The Chief Minister said the respect for Vande Mataram is not merely an emotional expression. “It also instils in all of us a sense of our national duties towards constitutional values,” he said.
Calling the song a "symbol of the nation’s soul, struggle and resolve", Mr. Adityanath said, “When Vande Mataram was celebrating its silver jubilee, the country was still under British rule.”
