{"id":36946,"date":"2026-09-11T09:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/omar-abdullah-on-vande-mataram-official-protocol-essential\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:38:22","slug":"omar-abdullah-on-vande-mataram-official-protocol-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/omar-abdullah-on-vande-mataram-official-protocol-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Abdullah on Vande Mataram: Official Protocol Essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/11\/419jp498_omar-abdullah_160x120_12_july_26-730x548_1789096444143.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/11\/419jp498_omar-abdullah_160x120_12_july_26-730x548_1789096444143.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/11\/419jp498_omar-abdullah_160x120_12_july_26-730x548_1789096444143.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the National Conference (NC) has never adopted Vande Mataram as a party and has no plans to do so in the future.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Omar said the decision is linked to the party\u2019s ideology and is a political matter. However, he clarified that the National Conference will follow the rules and protocol applicable to government programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>Full version played at Srinagar film festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Omar\u2019s remarks came after the full version of Vande Mataram was played at the International Film Festival in Srinagar on Monday, in the presence of Omar Abdullah and NC president Farooq Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The Congress objected to the playing of the full version of the national song at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Omar, however, said the rules governing government functions have to be followed. He stressed that such protocols apply to government programmes not only in Jammu and Kashmir but across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>Congress asks NC to maintain stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Congress organisation general secretary K.C. Venugopal shared a video of the event and appealed to the National Conference to stand with the Congress on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Venugopal urged the NC to maintain its position in favour of singing two stanzas of Vande Mataram, amid the ongoing disagreement over the national song\u2019s rendition.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the National Conference (NC) has never adopted Vande Mataram as a party and has no plans to do so in the future. Omar said the decision is linked to the party\u2019s ideology and is a political matter. However, he clarified that the National Conference will follow the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34403,34404,34405,22429,32554,22815,28407,26475],"class_list":["post-36946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-government-protocol","tag-indian-national-song","tag-jk-politics","tag-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-jknc","tag-omar-abdullah","tag-political-statement","tag-vande-mataram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}