Kangana Ranaut shocked at Sharmila Tagore's ‘contrived’ remarks on Vande Mataram: Come out of Hindu Muslim mindset
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Kangana Ranaut has shared her views on Sharmila Tagore's comments. What did Kangana say Taking to her Instagram Stories on Thursday evening, Kangana posted a video of Sharmila Tagore commenting on Vande Mataram and wrote a long note beside it. It read, “I appreciate that Sharmila ji has spoken about her reservation about Vande Mataram but I am shocked as an artist how can her views on art and poetry can be so limited and contrived. In any poetry or song, words are metaphors, A poet uses all kinds of imaginations, draws unbelievable parallels to bring about the desirable effect.”
Adding to this, She added, “Vande Mataram is the spirit of freedom struggle. Bankim Chandra ji is compelling the nation to awaken the shakti within, how can you reduce such a great piece of art to mere religious practice? Vivekananda famously shared I need youth who are made of iron, bones of steel, and veins in which run thunderbolt. He was not giving weather forecast, he was simply demanding shakti to rise. Please come out of Hindu Muslim mindset. Even if believe in one god, doctors also call power shakti. Lets embrace each other like our own. I absolutely love you and don't mind a crushing hug like you always give me.”
Meanwhile, Sharmila's remarks came a day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) decided to follow its 1937 resolution under which only the first two stanzas of the national song would be sung at Congress programmes. A row also erupted during the Congress 's Independence Day celebrations on August 15, when the BJP accused Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party parliamentary chairperson Sonia Gandhi of conversing while "Vande Mataram" was being rendered. The BJP had demanded an apology, while the Congress dismissed the incident as a coincidence.
Notably, After the CWC meeting, Congress MP K C Venugopal shared the party's position on the recitation of "Vande Mataram" was clear and that it would follow the decisions taken by Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1937.
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Source: Hindustan Times