00:00Breaking news coming in. That was not all that Smriti Irani has come out to address.
00:05She's also spoken about another controversy that has now been escalating with each passing day,
00:11which is the big Vande Mataram Rao that's again brought back.
00:16It's been reignited because Smriti Irani now has joined the tirade and come out to say and flag
00:22muted lines of Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters.
00:26She comes out to remind Vande's tanzas on Durga. Rahul invokes religion, forgot Durga.
00:32Smriti mocks Rahul's Manu Smriti jibe and dares Rahul sing the full Vande Mataram first.
00:39Goddess Durga is an embodiment of Shakti.
00:42So this is almost like linking one, making one issue contextual to the other here.
00:48Let's listen in first to what Smriti Irani has come out to say on the Vande Mataram Rao
00:52while locking horns with the Gandhis at this given point.
00:57Vande Mataram Rao.
01:18Vande Mataram Rao.
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01:54Two main controversies that's taken over.
01:58The national political arena at this given point with the BJP and the Congress escalating their jibes against each other
02:06with each passing day.
02:07One happens to be the Vande Mataram Rao which in fact saw its trigger point take place on Independence Day
02:13itself at the Congress headquarters.
02:15This is what Smriti Rani has in fact referenced to and addressed with these very remarks.
02:21But she's not just stuck to that, she's also taken it up to bring into its fold another controversy that's
02:28now come up since yesterday evening which was from the Chhatro Ki Goonj event that was hosted by Rahul Gandhi.
02:34And the mention of Manu Smriti was made which the details of which we were just taking you through a
02:40little while back.
02:41And Smriti Rani has come out to basically launch a counter attack at Rahul Gandhi point by point taking up
02:50each of the matters one by one.
02:51Now, Aishwarya Paliwal is back with us on the broadcast.
02:54Aishwarya, when we speak of the Vande Mataram Rao, of course we've seen several escalations, comments, counter comments being made
03:01from either sides.
03:02Here, Smriti Rani has come out to dare Rahul Gandhi that on one hand you're speaking of women empowerment,
03:09but you refuse to sing certain stanzas which are with regards to Goddess Durga, who is an embodiment of shrakti
03:16in the Hindu religion.
03:18So, there's a lot that's been addressed by her in context to each other.
03:22Take us through what you make of it.
03:25Well, you know, Smriti Rani, one of the five-year speakers of the Bati Gantapati has, has often been seen,
03:31you know, taking on Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhi family at large.
03:35And now, with regards to the entire controversy that we are seeing, also, you know, it was Sonia Gandhi,
03:40who after the two stanzas asked everyone to stop, there was mayhem, there was confusion within the Congress party.
03:46The PGP is now saying that this is the two phase of the Congress party, this is the two character
03:51of the Congress party.
03:52Now, Wande Mataram, the six stanzas to be sung is something which has been cleared by the Parliament of our
03:57country.
03:58Then why is it that it is the Congress party which is not agreeing for that?
04:02You have been speaking about women. This is what Smriti Rani in her Dare to Rahul Gandhi said.
04:07But there are paragraphs, there are stanzas that actually speak about different gods in India.
04:14And they are the ones that are included in all the six stanzas, but you are the one who's not
04:19willing to do that.
04:20She also said that she's aware that remarks regarding Hindu religion were made at the Congress leader's events.
04:25He's evoked religion.
04:26What one needs to see is that there is Goddess Durga.
04:29And about Goddess Durga, there are lines in Wande Mataram, but the Congress party is refusing to speak about those.
04:36Right, right, Aishwarya.
04:37Thank you for bringing us all of those details with regards to this very story.
04:41Of course, both debates raging on.
04:44And we will keep a very close look as to what comes in from either side as the day progresses.
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