THESE CLOWNS CLAIM TO BE NATIONALISTS AND CALL OTHERS ANTINATIONAL

RSS AND BJP OPPOSED THE NATIONAL FLAG


No religious community has, to this day, objected to the Ashoka Chakra or to other symbols through which the nation represents itself. No one has objected to the maxims adopted by Indian institutions either.

Oh Yes, the BJP itself once described the Dharma Chakra at the centre of the tricolour as communal because of its association with the Buddhist tradition.

Yes, RSS and Hindu Mahasabha had objected to the "Tiranga" calling it inauspicious and evil for having three colours, strongly opposed the adoption of the Tricolour as India's national flag, preferring instead the saffron flag (Bhagwa Dhwaj) or specifically designed Hindu nationalist symbols.

"The people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it will never be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a country."
~~ Editorial in RSS mouthpiece Organiser on 14 August 1947

"It (the tricolour) was not inspired by any national vision or truth based on our national history and heritage... The saffron flag in totality represented the Bharatiya culture."
~~ M.S. Golwalkar, 1966 book Bunch of Thoughts

On September 25, 1947, Hindu Mahasabha President L.B. Bhopatkar publicly affirmed that Syama Prasad Mookerjee (who was serving in Jawaharal Nehru's post-independence cabinet) gave allegiance to the Bhagwa Jhanda over the Tricolour.

Prime Minister Nehru to wrote a letter to Mookerjee addressing concerns that the Bhagwa flag, rather than the Tricolour, was flying over Mookerjee's official ministerial residence in Delhi.

RSS primarily hoisted the Bhagwa Dhwaj at its headquarters in Nagpur for decades, only adopting regular ceremonial hoistings of the national flag on Independence Day and Republic Day in 2002.

RSS OPPOSED "JANA GANA MANA"

The RSS historically expressed strong reservations regarding the adoption of Jana Gana Mana as India's national anthem, preferring Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram instead.

The Sangh argued that while Rabindranath Tagore's Jana Gana Mana was written to denote the political state (Rajya), Vande Mataram represented the cultural essence of the nation (Rashtra).

"Our canonical song Vande Mataram... was discarded and Jana Gana Mana substituted in its place... It was just a politician's patchwork and a political expediency."
~~ M.S. Golwalkar, 1966 book Bunch of Thoughts

In 2016, RSS General Secretary Suresh "Bhaiyyaji" Joshi stated that while Jana Gana Mana is the constitutionally mandated anthem that every citizen must respect, Vande Mataram remains the "real" national anthem in terms of cultural meaning and national identity.

MODI GOVT CLANDESTINELY REPLACING "JANA GANA MANA" WITH "VANDE MATARAM" AS "NATIONAL ANTHEM"

Elevating "Vande Mataram" to the status equal to national anthem "Jana Gana Mana", singing the full "Vande Mataram" for a total of approximately 3 minutes to 4 minutes and 30 seconds as against the short official National Song protocol, which consists of only the first two stanzas and lasts about 1 minute and 5 seconds (65 seconds) while the National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana" lasts only about 53 seconds.

Three Months After Supreme Court Said Not Singing Vande Mataram Imposed No Penal Consequence, Centre Moves to Criminalise “insult to national song, Vande Mataram”. On March 25, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging a Union home ministry circular on singing all the stanzas of the national song at official events. While dismissing the petition, the apex court bench had said that the circular was merely an advisory and that no penalty was associated with the failure to follow its instructions.

Supreme Court declined to interfere with the MHA [Ministry of Home Affair]'s January 2026 Vande Mataram protocol, observing that it imposed no legal burden or penal consequence, while expressly leaving it open for anyone to approach the Court if the protocol was ever enforced through compulsion or coercive action.

Within months, the Government has brought a Bill to criminalise acts relating to Vande Mataram enforced through compulsion or coercive action.

Seventy-six years after the constitution and fifty-five years after the 1971 Act, selectively invoking Dr. Rajendra Prasad while ignoring the constitutional settlement and legislative history is a distortion of both history and law.

In the words of John Brittas, CPI(M) MP "Patriotism cannot be manufactured through criminal law. India's unity rests on constitutional principles, liberty of conscience and pluralism – not coercive nationalism."

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