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`Vande Mataram' to be sung at Bangalore varsity

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Even as the debate on singing of national song `Vande Mataram' is yet to subside, many organisations and associations, including the Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi and the Bangalore University, are all set to have it sung at 11 a.m. on Thursday in Bangalore.

Registrar of Bangalore University R.M.N. Sahai has, in a circular, said that singing of the first two stanzas of the national song on Thursday was compulsory going by the directions by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The song would be rendered at the Senate Hall on the Jnana Bharati campus in the presence of Vice-Chancellor H.A. Ranganath, the Registrar and other senior officials of the university.

Organisations of standing such as the Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi have said that they would observe the centenary of the song. A forum that identified itself as the `Vande Mataram' Andolana Shatabdi Smarane, Vijayanagar, has printed the complete text of the song along with its meaning in Kannada in its invitation.

Rashrotthana Parishat, an RSS forum, has decorated its invitation for the centenary function with the well-known journalist Motilal Ghosh's famous assertion on singing of the song - "Let me be beheaded - that is not a valuable thing to lose - But I will sing Vande Mataram." The parishat is holding the centenary function in the evening at Kempe Gowda Nagar. Swamiji of Adichunchanagiri Math, the former Governor of Bihar and Jharkhand M. Rama Jois, M. Chidananda Murthy and Mumtaz Ali Khan will speak.

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