महुआ मोइत्रा ने RSS-BJP को संसद में पढ़ाया वंदे मातरम पर पाठ

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वंदे मातरम पर संसद में बहस के दौरान टीएमसी की महुआ मोइत्रा ने वंदे मातरम पर चर्चा के दौरान भाजपा-संघ पर साधा निशाना और कहा कि देश को बांटने का जिम्मा वंदे मातरम का नहीं बल्कि संघ-भाजपा की विचारधारा का है। #news #latestnews #newsanalysis #parliamentsession #wintersession #vandematramdebate #mahuamoitra  #TMC #rssagenda

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00:00वोगंकेम चात्रपदा लेकिला लिए्टाब हम वंदे मातरब इस फिर्टाब्राइश का थे लगे लागे कि लगें लिए लिए लिए ये लेटनेज़ा टॉड़ने

00:12in the literary journal Bongodosho on November 7, 1875.

00:18At that time, there were no patriotic societies or nationalistic organizations

00:22to speak of in India, except for the Indian League in Calcutta,

00:25which was founded by some patriotic Bengalis,

00:29Shishir Ghosh, Anandamohan Bose, Shurindranath Banerjee,

00:32to rally public support against British colonial rule.

00:36The RSS and the BJP were nowhere in sight.

00:38The RSS was formed 50 years later.

00:40in 1925, and the BJP was formed 105 years later in 1980.

00:48And incidentally, the ruling party, the Sankh Parivar,

00:50do not sing Vande Mataram.

00:52I remember this hilarious episode in 2017, I think it was,

00:57on TV, where there was a BJP spokesperson called Naveen Kumar Singh,

01:01and he was asked to sing Vande Mataram.

01:03He was looking at his mobile phone, and even then he couldn't sing it.

01:06Also, in August 2017, I remember a cabinet minister in the U.P. government,

01:12Baldev Singh Aulak, I think his name was,

01:14he was unable to correctly sing this song on a TV news show.

01:19In January 2019, before the last Lok Sabha election,

01:23BJP leaders held a protest where they were going to make Muslims sing the song.

01:27They themselves could not sing the song correctly,

01:30so the meeting descended into chaos,

01:32and the BJP leaders and their followers chanted slogans like,

01:35Is desh mein agar rehna hoga, toh Vande Mataram kehna hoga.

01:39So, frankly, the BJP's commitment to this song is a badly scripted comedy.

01:44The British banned the use of the slogan Vande Mataram under the sedition laws,

01:51and banned it singing in any public place.

01:54When India's youngest freedom fighter, Vingol's brave son, Kudiram Bose,

01:57was led to the gallows in 1908, he had Vande Mataram on his lips.

02:02When in 1927, Ram Prasad Bismil walked to the gallows in Gorakpur jail,

02:06when Ashwakullah Khan walked to the gallows in Faizabad jail,

02:10they all had Vande Mataram on their lips.

02:12But this is the same slogan that the Rajya Sabha bulletin finds non-decorous

02:16and non-serious in the Rajya Sabha.

02:19Who in the BJP, who in the RSS, who in the Treasury benches

02:23can claim even a tenuous link to the freedom struggle,

02:27that today you feel you are the guardians of Vande Mataram,

02:29and will teach us Bengalis and the rest of India what its significance is?

02:34Out of 585 total prisoners in Andaman cellular jail, Kalapani,

02:40between 1909 and 1938, 68%, 398, were Bengali.

02:48The second largest contingent was from the Punjab, 95 revolutionaries.

02:52Why did you not rename the cellular jail after Bari Nghosh,

02:56after Ullashkar Dotto, after Indu Bhushan Roy?

02:59What homage have you paid Bengal?

03:02What homage have you played the land of Vande Mataram?

03:04Today you are having a discussion on this.

03:07The hymn Vande Mataram did not gain much popularity

03:10till it was included in Bunkim Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Anandamot

03:14in 1882 when it was published.

03:17Now, when he published it, he added four extra stanzas to it.

03:21The first two stanzas, which he had written in 1875,

03:25were a lyrical ode to the motherland.

03:27It says, give her of bliss, beauty.

03:29The version in the novel, which he incorporated in 1881-82,

03:33had a different tone than that of the original poem.

03:36The figure of sweetness and light was now endowed with a fearsome accoutrement

03:41and the trappings of war, almost.

03:44But this is in keeping with the narrative of the novel,

03:47which was about the Shonarashi rebellion.

03:50It is important to note here that in the next four stanzas that he wrote,

03:54used the words Shabtokoti, which means seven crores.

04:00Now, seven crores in the 1871 census

04:02was the population of undivided Bengal, Bihar, Urissa and Assam.

04:07So this means that the novel, the hymn, was about Bengal.

04:11The hymn was about Bengal and the mother he refers to

04:14is also in Bengal's concept and Bengal's context.

04:19This was not originally written as a pan-nationalistic, pan-India song.

04:24It was not.

04:25Let's be very clear about that.

04:27So how did it become this nationalistic song?

04:30How does A.I. Rahman sing it in 1997?

04:33How?

04:34It was none other than the poet laureate, Ravindanath Tagore,

04:37who composed the first musical score of the song,

04:40based on Desh Ragini, around 1885.

04:42Rishi Bunkim liked the song and the tune so much,

04:46he himself included it in the third edition of his book,

04:50Anandamot, in 1886.

04:54Tagore, in 1937, writes to Nehru,

04:57and he writes to Nehru,

04:59that the privilege of originally setting its first stanza to the tune was mine.

05:04When the author was still alive,

05:06Bunkim died in 1894.

05:07He says,

05:08I set it to tune while Bunkim was still alive.

05:11And I was the first person to sing it.

05:13So Tagore was the first person to sing it publicly

05:15before a public gathering of the Calcutta Congress in 1896.

05:20So Tagore sets the tune,

05:22and he sings it publicly

05:23in the presence of Ramatullah Saini,

05:25Dada Bhai Nairoji,

05:26Surindranath Banerji.

05:28The song gained mass popularity

05:30when?

05:31Only after 1905,

05:33when the Swadeshi movement

05:34as a reaction to Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal took place,

05:38itinerant singers sung it in Prabhat Theris every morning

05:41to raise national consciousness.

05:44Rabindranath Tagore himself,

05:46on Raksha Bandhan Day,

05:47October 16th, 1905,

05:50left the famous anti-partition protest

05:52where Hindus and Muslims tied rakhis on each other

05:55and said,

05:56Bandai Mataram.

05:58Today, this BJP government,

06:00who claims to promote Bandai Mataram,

06:02has ensured that even the moon,

06:04that moon of Raksha Poonima,

06:06that moon of Eid,

06:08has been partitioned.

06:09Hindu women can break their Karvachot fast

06:12on their roof with the sighting of the moon,

06:14but a Muslim in a BJP-ruled state

06:16is forbidden from offering Eid ka namaz

06:19on his roof to the same moon.

06:22And you are blaming a song

06:23for India's divisiveness.

06:24The song was sung again

06:27during the Congress session

06:28in Banaras in 1905

06:30by Tagore's niece,

06:31Shorla Devi Choudhudani,

06:33who replaced the Shopto Koti,

06:35the seven crores,

06:36with Trikshra Koti,

06:37which means 30 crores,

06:39which is the population of India

06:40in the last census of 1901.

06:43So this is the first time

06:44that the song is gathering up

06:45pan-national appeal.

06:48Gandhiji, in the Indian opinion paper,

06:51he writes in December 1905

06:52that this song is so popular.

06:54Just as we worship our mother,

06:56so is the song

06:57A Passionate Prayer to India.

07:00Tagore continued to use the refrain

07:02bande mataram

07:02almost as a slogan

07:04in some of his own songs.

07:06He says it in many of his own songs.

07:12Many of his own songs

07:13use the term bande mataram.

07:15The Swadeshi agitation of 1905 and 1908

07:18saw bande mataram as a clarion call.

07:21The great Tamil poet Subramanya Bharti,

07:23he translated it in Tamil in 1905.

07:26It began to be sung in meetings

07:27and processions all over India

07:29from coastal Andhra Pradesh,

07:30from Vijay Bada and the Krishna

07:32to after Jalyanwala Baag

07:34in the canals and cantonments of Punjab,

07:36where they didn't think of it

07:37as a Bengali Sanskrit hymn.

07:39They saw it as a shared call of resistance.

07:41In that sense.

07:50Thank you.

07:51Thank you.

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