PM Modi meets BJP’s new team at Delhi headquarters; Nitin Nabin pushes youth outreach
PM Modi meets BJP’s new team at Delhi headquarters; Nitin Nabin pushes youth outreach Photograph: (X (@narendramodi))
PM Modi meets BJP chief Nitin Nabin’s new team as BJP steps up youth outreach and backs the full legacy of Vande Mataram nationwide
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) newly constituted national team led by party president Nitin Nabin at the BJP headquarters in Delhi. PM Modi reached the party office on Saturday evening, shortly after the BJP passed a resolution highlighting the honour and historic legacy of Vande Mataram. The party also announced plans for a nationwide campaign aimed at creating awareness about the National Song’s history and significance.
BJP president Nitin Nabin welcomed the Prime Minister. A video shared by news agency ANI showed Modi and Nabin posing with the newly appointed team of national office-bearers. The 65-member team, announced on August 17, includes 51 new faces. Among those given key responsibilities are Kavita Patidar, K Surendran, Manoj Tigga and Sandeep Pathak. Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and former Union minister Smriti Irani have also been assigned important roles in the organisational overhaul.
Nitin Nabin’s youth outreach push
Earlier on Saturday, Nitin Nabin held a meeting with the newly appointed office-bearers and asked them to prioritise “Yuva Samvad”, or continuous engagement with young people. The party has started forming dedicated teams comprising senior leaders from different parts of the country. The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has been tasked with assisting in the formation and mobilisation of these teams. Former national office-bearers are also expected to play an important role in the planned youth outreach programme, the report said.
BJP passes resolution on Vande Mataram
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The BJP on Saturday passed a resolution opposing the Congress Working Committee’s decision to reaffirm its 1937 resolution and restrict the singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at party programmes. The BJP resolution said the National Song’s legacy cannot be “reduced to the calculations of contemporary vote-bank politics.” In a statement, the party described Vande Mataram as the National Song of Bharat, an expression of reverence for Bharat Mata, a mantra of the freedom struggle and an enduring symbol of India’s national consciousness.
The BJP resolved “to uphold the honour, dignity, legacy and national status of the complete Vande Mataram as the National Song of Bharat and as an immortal symbol of India’s national consciousness and freedom struggle… To affirm the constitutional and statutory status of Vande Mataram as established by the Constituent Assembly’s 1950 pronouncement and reinforced by Parliament’s 2026 amendment extending statutory protection to the National Song equivalent to that accorded to the National Anthem,” the resolution said.
Taking aim at the Congress over its decision not to sing all the stanzas of Vande Mataram, the BJP said it would oppose any effort to place the National Song under communal pressure, political appeasement or narrow electoral considerations. The Congress Working Committee had earlier decided to follow its 1937 resolution and sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at party events rather than perform the complete song.
The BJP resolution further said, “…To remind the Congress that a resolution of its Working Committee cannot override the constitutional institutions or laws of the Republic of India, and that a political compromise of 1937 cannot be elevated above the constitutional settlement of 1950 and legislation enacted by Parliament in 2026….To expose before the people of Bharat the historical and political context in which the truncation of Vande Mataram took place, including the objections raised by the Muslim League and the subsequent politics of communal and separatist demands."
The developments come as the BJP seeks to combine organisational restructuring under Nitin Nabin with a renewed focus on youth engagement and the political legacy of Vande Mataram.
