{"id":38607,"date":"2026-09-16T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/priyank-kharge-challenges-bjp-leaders-over-vande-mataram\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:47:50","slug":"priyank-kharge-challenges-bjp-leaders-over-vande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/priyank-kharge-challenges-bjp-leaders-over-vande-mataram\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyank Kharge Challenges BJP Leaders Over Vande Mataram"},"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\/16\/cover_1789536090610.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/16\/cover_1789536090610.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/16\/cover_1789536090610.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Karnataka Home Minister and Congress leader Priyank Kharge has defended the state government&#8217;s decision to sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at government programmes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Amid the BJP&#8217;s demand that all the stanzas be sung, he challenged party leaders BY Vijayendra and R. Ashoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Kharge said the two leaders should sing all the stanzas of Vande Mataram without using a teleprompter or looking at a piece of paper. He said, &#8220;If they manage to do so, I will resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>The story is being updated&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Home Minister and Congress leader Priyank Kharge has defended the state government&#8217;s decision to sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at government programmes. Amid the BJP&#8217;s demand that all the stanzas be sung, he challenged party leaders BY Vijayendra and R. Ashoka. Kharge said the two leaders should sing all the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38608,"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":[40736,40737,31729,23522,24486,40738,26475,28559],"class_list":["post-38607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-bjp-karnataka","tag-by-vijayendra","tag-congress-karnataka","tag-karnataka-politics","tag-priyank-kharge","tag-r-ashoka","tag-vande-mataram","tag-vande-mataram-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38607","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=38607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}