Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding Subramanian Swamy’s letter concerning the ‘replacement’ of some words in the national anthem by the one composed and sung by Late Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and termed the MP’s concern as ‘narrow’.
“I may like to draw your attention to a letter written by Subramanyam Swamy member Rajya Sabha. The said letter concerns the replacement of a few words in our national anthem Jana Gana Mana by a few words composed and sung by the Late Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his INA forces,” Chowdhury wrote to PM Modi.
Swamy demands this change on the ground that Rabindranath Tagore’s Jana Gana Mana, which was adopted by Indian Constituent Assembly on 24 January 1950 as India’s national anthem, neither reflects post-independence Indian reality as it contains ‘Sind’ (which now lies in Pakistan) not it is clear for whom this was…