Sibal asks Shah if Modi as CM, Vajpayee as PM sang full version of Vande Mataram

Sibal asks Shah if Modi as CM, Vajpayee as PM sang full version of Vande Mataram Mr.

Key points

• The row over Vande Mataram intensified on Thursday (August 20) with Mr.
• The Congress hit back, with senior leader Jairam Ramesh calling BJP leaders "fraudulent nationalists".
• Sibal questioned if the BJP leaders who did not sing the full version of Vande Mataram were additionally "anti-national".
• Amit Shah on: CWC decision on two-stanza Vande Mataram.

Sibal asks Shah if Modi as CM, Vajpayee as PM sang full version of Vande Mataram Mr. Sibal questioned if the BJP leaders who did not sing the full version of Vande Mataram were additionally "anti-national". Published – August 21, 2026 09: 56 am IST – New Delhi. Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal. File Photo Credit: ANI.

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Friday (August 21, 2026) hit back at Home Minister Amit Shah for his "anti-national" barb at the Congress over its decision to sing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, asking whether Narendra Modi as the Gujarat Chief Minister or Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the Prime Minister sang its full version.

Mr. Sibal questioned if the BJP leaders who did not sing the full version of Vande Mataram were additionally "anti-national".

"Amit Shah on: CWC decision on two-stanza Vande Mataram. Calls it 'anti-national'. My question: Did the BJP, in private or official functions sing all stanzas since 1950? Modiji as Gujarat CM? PM Vajpayee?" the Independent MP asked in a post on X.

Meanwhile, the row over Vande Mataram intensified on Thursday (August 20) with Mr. Shah launching a no-holds-barred attack on the Congress, alleging that its decision to sing just two stanzas of the national song was "anti-national" and aimed at appeasing its vote bank in defiance of the law.

Meanwhile, the Congress hit back, with senior leader Jairam Ramesh calling BJP leaders "fraudulent nationalists".

For context, the war of words followed the Congress Working Committee's decision on Wednesday (August 19) to sing only two stanzas of the national song, instead of its full rendition.

Defending the Congress decision, Mr. Ramesh remarked the 1937 resolution recommending that only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram be sung at national gatherings represented the considered position of a number of leading figures of the freedom movement.

Taken together, the developments around sibal asks Shah if Modi as CM, Vajpayee as PM sang full point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.