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=NATIONAL SONG=


The song Vande Mataram, composed in sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji, was
a source of inspiration to the people in their struggle for freedom. It has an equal
status with Jana-gana-mana. The first political occasion when it was sung was the
1896 session of the Indian National Congress. The following is the text of its first
stanza :

'' Vande Mataram!

Sujalam, suphalam, malayaja shitalam,

Shasyashyamalam, Mataram!

Shubhrajyotsna pulakitayaminim,

Phullakusumita drumadala shobhinim,

Suhasinim sumadhura bhashinim,

Sukhadam varadam, Mataram! ''

The English translation of the stanza rendered by Sri Aurobindo in prose1 is :

I bow to thee, Mother,

richly-watered, richly-fruited,

cool with the winds of the south,

dark with the crops of the harvests,

The Mother!

Her nights rejoicing in the glory of the moonlight,

her lands clothed beautifully with her trees in flowering bloom,

sweet of laughter, sweet of speech,

The Mother, giver of boons, giver of bliss.
=The legal position=
==Supreme Court declines to issue judicial directives==
See also [[National Anthem: India]]

[http://indianexpress.com/article/india/sc-declines-to-hear-plea-for-guidelines-to-play-vande-mataram-4530834/  SC declines to hear plea for guidelines to play Vande Mataram | Express News Service | New Delhi |:February 18, 2017]


The court referred to the The Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and constitutional provisions relating to fundamental rights as it refused to take up up the plea regarding the national song


THE SUPREME Court on 17 Feb 2017 declined to entertain a plea for issuing judicial directives to play ‘Vande Mataram’, observing that laws did not recognise the concept of national song. “There is no concept of a national song,” a bench led by Justice Dipak Misra observed while hearing a PIL, which urged the court to issue guidelines on the lines of its directions on playing of the national anthem.

The court referred to the The Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act and constitutional provisions relating to fundamental rights as it refused to take up up the plea regarding the national song. “Article 51A only mentions the National Flag and the National Anthem. The Article does not refer to a national song…Therefore, we do not intend to enter into any debate as far as a national song is concerned,” the bench, also comprising Justices R Banumathi and Mohan M Shantanagoudar said.

The bench also refused to entertain for now PIL petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay’s request to make rendering of the national anthem compulsory in offices, courts, legislative houses and Parliament. However, it agreed to examine other prayers in the petition, including making the national anthem compulsory in schools. “Barring the singing of the national anthem on schools on every working day, other prayers stand rejected,” said the bench, while issuing a notice to the Centre on this aspect.

==Madras HC: Complusory in TN schools, offices==
[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/hc-judge-wants-vande-mataram-sung-in-tn/article19361216.ece  R. Sivaraman, HC judge wants Vande Mataram sung in T.N., July 26, 2017: The Hindu]


Schools, colleges, universities, factories to play and sing the song that ‘instilled confidence’ in people

A Madras High Court judge ordered Vande Mataram to be played and sung in a

=Administrative orders=
== Meerut Nagar Nigam==
[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Meerut-mayor-Singing-Vande-Mataram-must-30032017031036   Meerut mayor: Singing Vande Mataram must | Mar 30 2017 : The Times of India (Delhi)]


Meerut mayor Harikant Ahluwalia has passed a resolution that all Nagar Nigam board members will have to sing Vande Mataram or she will not be allowed to enter the board meeting room or participate in its proceedings, reports Sandeep Rai. The resolution will need the government's nod.

The announcement led to protests by a few Muslim board members, who quoted an SC order that says singing of Vande Mataram is not mandatory .

==Compulsory in BMC schools==
[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Vande-singing-to-be-must-in-BMC-schools-11082017009011  Richa Pinto, `Vande' singing to be must in BMC schools, August 111, 2017: The Times of India]


A BJP corporator's proposal making it compulsory for students of all civic schools here to sing `Vande Mataram' was passed at a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) general body meeting.

The proposal, which calls for `Vande Mataram' to be sung in schools at least twice a week, will now be sent to civic chief Ajoy Mehta for administrative approval.

“A song as such will only increase patriotism in the minds of children. Therefore, I strongly felt BMC should consider this proposal,“ said Sandeep Patel, BJP corporator from Goregaon.The proposal received a nod from the Shiv Sena, the ruling party in BMC.

The move was opposed in the BMC by Samajwadi Party -the move, it said, would amount to worship of the motherland, and added that Muslims didn't worship anyone but Allah.

SP's Rais Shaikh and six corporators demanded a poll over the issue but it was not considered.



=See also=
[[The National Symbols of India]]

[[National Anthem: India]]

[[National Anthem, India: Jehovah’s Witnesses]]

[[Vande Mataram]]