Hosabale, Bhagwat lead RSS tributes marking 150 years of Vande Mataram and Birsa Munda’s birth anniversary
New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday commemorated two historic milestones — the 150th anniversary of the composition of Vande Mataram and the 150th birth anniversary of tribal icon Dharti Aba Bhagwan Birsa Munda — with Sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale issuing statements calling for renewed national consciousness, unity and self-awareness.
Hosabale described Vande Mataram as the “soul song of the nation,” written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1875 and immortalized when Rabindranath Tagore presented it at the Congress National........





















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