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Joshi flays Cong decision on Vande Mataram
SENIOR BHARATIYA Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi criticised the Congress? decades-old decision to allow only two stanzas of the Vande Mataram to be sung as the national song. Joshi said on Monday this decision had encouraged subsequent ?appeasement? policies. He was talking to mediapersons here on Monday.
SENIOR BHARATIYA Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi criticised the Congress’ decades-old decision to allow only two stanzas of the Vande Mataram to be sung as the national song.
Joshi said on Monday this decision had encouraged subsequent ‘appeasement’ policies.
He was talking to mediapersons here on Monday.
Joshi said he failed to understand why the Congress took such a step when there was nothing against anybody in this song.
He accused the ruling party members of deliberately stalling proceedings of the House on the day the discussion on the Pathak Authority report was to be held.
He also accused the government of deliberately not vesting power under Section 8 B of the Commission of Inquiry Act in the Pathak Authority.
Armed with this power, the Pathak Authority would have been in a position to interrogate, but the government never wanted such powers to be vested in the hands of the Pathak Authority, he said.
Even Justice Pathak wrote to the government that the power under this section was deliberately not given to him, Joshi said.
He demanded that all papers brought from the UNO in connection with the Volcker report should be placed before the House.
He also drew attention to Volcker’s remark about having deliberately saved several persons.
The senior leader took strong exception to the objectionable language used in several NCERT books. Such language was certainly not fit for children, he said.
Joshi said he was happy that nearly the entire House unanimously consented to removal of all objectionable words from the NCERT books. He also said the present HRD Minister was unfit for the post.
