2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: delhi high court, Jana Gana Mana

‘VANDE MATARAM’ NATIONAL ANTHEM OR NATIONAL SONG

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Topics covered: High court decision, Why the demand arise, National Anthem and National Song

The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to declare “Vande Mataram” the national anthem, on par with “Jana Gana Mana”.

A bench said, there is no reason to give direction to the respondent (Centre) to declare Vande Mataram as a national anthem or national song.
The plea wanted “Vande Mataram” to be given the same respect as the national anthem, “Jana Gana Mana”.

It is a Bengali poem written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s, which he included in his 1882 novel Anandamath.
The poem was composed into song by Rabindranath Tagore.
The title ‘Bande Mataram’ means “I praise thee, Mother”.
The first two verses of the song were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress Working Committee prior to the end of colonial rule in August 1947.
In 1950 (after independence), the first two verses of the song were declared the “national song” of the Republic of India, distinct from the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana.

Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India.
It was originally composed as Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore.
The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950.
It was first publicly sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
The poem was published in February 1905 under the title Bharat Bhagya Bidhata in the Tatwabodhini Patrika, which was the official publication of the Brahmo Samaj with Tagore then the Editor.

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