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Vande Mataram row

It is shocking that Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh finds it appropriate to claim that no one is under compulsion to sing Vande Mataram on September 7 and that the Centre's directive to the States did not say its singing was mandatory. There was no need for such a directive in the first place. By diluting it in the face of a minor protest, the Government has shown disrespect to freedom fighters and the national song.

Murali Krishna,
West Lafayette, Indiana

How can a secular government take decisions under religious compulsions? The Congress stands exposed.

Yogesh Dewan,
Ludhiana, Punjab

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