00:00There appears to still be a showdown over Vande Mataram in Karnataka.
00:04Remember the assembly session is presently on.
00:07The latest visuals also showed that when the BJP said they only want to sing all stanzas very clear,
00:14while the Congress, the MLA's maintained that they need to have only the two stanzas because that stands significant.
00:22That according to them has been followed historically.
00:26That's been their belief and that will be secular.
00:29But now it appears that Karnataka Governor Thavarchand Gehloth has advised Chief Minister D.K. Shiv Kumar
00:34to reconsider state government's decision to restrict rendition of Vande Mataram to the first two stanzas.
00:40Gehloth has said that September 8th government order should be examined in light of the central government's instructions
00:45on the official version and rendition of the national song
00:48and referring to the recent amendment act that has given it that kind of authority.
00:57So that is the big news.
00:58Because remember on day one when the Karnataka Assembly convened,
01:01the Congress government played only the two stanzas and then the audio stopped.
01:06So what did the BJP MLAs do?
01:08Some of them knew it by heart.
01:09Others had a paper with them and they were reading and singing the national song, Vande Mataram.
01:14All the 11 stanzas, even though the Speaker started to then ask what is the next procedure,
01:22the next protocol, which MLA has to speak, which Minister has to give answers.
01:26So while Vande Mataram was being sung by the BJP MLAs,
01:29the Congress ministers and the Congress leaders of the government started to talk about the issue at hand
01:37and what needs to be discussed in the Assembly.
01:39And that is what was happening.
01:41So in the latest now, we know that the governor has written to the chief minister,
01:45seeking to reconsider the stand that the Congress has maintained.
01:49But this, remember, is not really DK Shiv Kumar to really decide upon,
01:52because it's the Congress leadership in Delhi that's already taken that stand,
01:56that they'll follow what they believe is secular,
01:58only two stanzas of the Vande Mataram.
02:00But the governor is quoting that when the Amendment Act, cleared by the Parliament,
02:05clearly states the priority and the significance that needs to be granted to Vande Mataram as the national song,
02:11at par with national anthem, how can Karnataka act otherwise?
02:16But like we have been telling you, that the state government does have the authority to decide on this,
02:22compared to how the Parliament decided, especially for union government or central events,
02:28but for state events, the state government can take a call on its own.
02:33But for now, with the governor also interjecting on this, writing to the chief minister,
02:39it remains to be seen how they'll proceed with it, but definitely big on this.
02:46Sagai Raj is joining me for the latest on that.
02:49Sagai, go ahead, tell me what the governor has written and how the governor has got involved in this,
02:54because DK Shiv Kumar believes that they're doing nothing wrong.
03:00Absolutely, and DK Shiv Kumar maintained that ever since we got the independence,
03:04we are following this, and we are singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram,
03:09but the order which was being passed on 21st of September,
03:13sorry, 21st of September, which, I mean, 21st of September,
03:17the letter which has been written by the governor, Tavachand Kyaloth,
03:19has said that whatever the government is trying to do,
03:22it is trying to insult the pride of national song,
03:26and as well as the national pride of the country,
03:28because it is an order which has been passed by the central government,
03:31and the state government have to go ahead and follow,
03:34and it is against the federal system,
03:37as the state government is not following on Vande Mataram song,
03:41and he has asked the government to reconsider their decision and revoke that.
03:49I will be tracking the latest on that.
03:53Sagai, thank you very much for now,
03:54but this is going to be perhaps clearly a confrontation
03:57that will continue in the Assembly.
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