Lucknow, 20 Aug (HS): Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister

Keshav Prasad Maurya remarked on Thursday, Rassi jal gayi, par ainth nahi

gayi (the rope has burned, but the arrogance/twist remains), comparing

Congress's current approach to the divisive politics that led to the partition

of India in 1947. “This remains the case for the Gandhi family and its pocket

ally, the Congress. The Congress Working Committee has once again reaffirmed

its 90-year-old decision to sing only two verses of Vande Mataram.

This stubbornness, under pressure from fundamentalists, to keep the national

anthem incomplete, is increasingly distancing the Congress from public

sentiment,” he claimed.

Keshav Prasad Maurya wrote in a social media post on

Thursday that the Congress should clarify why it avoids mentioning Goddess

Durga, Goddess Lakshmi, and Goddess Saraswati. Who is it trying to appease by

omitting four verses of the national anthem? This stubbornness exposes the true

face of its accidental Hindu mentality and pseudo-secularism.

The Deputy Chief Minister said that this decision by the

Congress, acting at the behest of the Gandhi family, is not driven by any

ideological principle, but by vote bank politics and appeasement. The country

has already paid the terrible price of religious politics in the form of

partition, yet the Congress continues to weigh the symbol of national unity on

the scale of religious votes. Keshav Prasad Maurya said that Congress should

understand that the country has now moved far beyond the narrow politics of

appeasement and vote bank politics. Vande Mataram will resonate

throughout the country, not incomplete, but with all six verses, and its

thunderous sound will be heard from the Gandhi family's doorstep to Congress

headquarters.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi