Prime Minister Narendra Modi will initiate a debate on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The lower house of the Parliament has listed the issue for discussion on Monday and allocated 10 hours for the debate.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to be the second speaker. Also expected to participate in the discussion are Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, among other members. The debate is part of the year-long celebrations on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
The issue will be taken up for discussion in the upper house on Tuesday. Home Minister Amit Shah will initiate the discussion in Rajya Sabha, and Health Minister and Leader of the Rajya Sabha JP Nadda will be the second speaker.
“Many important and unknown facets related to Vande Mataram will come out in front of the nation during the debate,” officials said. The proceedings on the first two days of the Winter session that started on December 1 were disrupted due to the opposition’s protests on the SIR, leading to repeated adjournments.
The Monsoon session of Parliament was a virtual washout over the demand by the opposition for a debate on the SIR, then being held in Bihar.
