Former Bureaucrat Moves Supreme Court Against MHA Orders Making Six-Stanza Vande Mataram the National Song

Plea in SC terms six-stanza Vande Mataram a ‘divisive religious war song’, a step towards ‘theocracy’

The plea filed by B.D. Borkar, a Phule-Ambedkarite, said a State compulsion expressed through two successive government orders would lead to the ‘deepening communal division and conflict in India by outraging the religious and spiritual feelings of minority religions’

Former Bureaucrat Moves Supreme Court Against MHA Orders Making Six-Stanza Vande Mataram the National Song

B.D. Borkar’s petition says the MHA orders of January 28 and July 9, 2026 undo a Constituent Assembly decision, violate secularism and expose singers to prosecution under the BNS.