President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday gave assent to a Invoice that criminalises intentional disruption or prevention of the making a song of the nationwide music ‘Vande Mataram’, giving it the similar felony coverage recently accorded to the nationwide anthem.
With the president’s assent, The Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour (Modification) Invoice, 2026, has change into a legislation.The Lok Sabha had handed the Invoice on July 30, whilst the Rajya Sabha had cleared it an afternoon previous.The regulation grants Vande Mataram the similar standing because the nationwide anthem, ‘Jana Gana Mana’.
For the primary time on the Independence Day serve as, Vande Mataram will probably be sung from the ramparts of the Pink Citadel, the Union House Ministry mentioned.Previous, the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act prohibited deliberately combating the making a song of the nationwide anthem (Jana Gana Mana) or inflicting disturbance to any meeting engaged in such making a song.
Those offences have been punishable with as much as 3 years of imprisonment, a tremendous or each, whilst a 2nd and each and every next conviction attracted no less than twelve months’s imprisonment.The erstwhile legislation didn’t accord the similar coverage for the nationwide music.
“At this time, there’s no particular felony provision to forestall insults to the making a song of ‘Vande Mataram’, which is honoured because the nationwide music. Due to this fact, to be able to restrict someone from deliberately combating the making a song of the nationwide music or inflicting disturbance to any meeting engaged in such making a song, it’s proposed to amend Phase 3 of the mentioned Act to incorporate the nationwide music additionally inside of its ambit, so that you can make such acts punishable,” the Invoice had mentioned.
The president of the Constituent Meeting, Dr Rajendra Prasad, on January 24, 1950, mentioned that the music ‘Vande Mataram’ composed through Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, which performed a historical function within the Indian freedom combat, will be honoured similarly with the nationwide anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and shall have equivalent standing with it, the Invoice additional mentioned.
Previous this yr, the Union House Ministry directed that each one six stanzas of ‘Vande Mataram’ will be sung first when the nationwide music and the nationwide anthem are performed in combination.In an order dated January 28, the house ministry gave the primary set of protocols for making a song the nationwide music, directing that six stanzas of it, having a period of three mins and 10 seconds, will be sung at legit purposes equivalent to the coming of the president, unfurling of the nationwide flag, and speeches of governors.
“When the nationwide music and the nationwide anthem are sung or performed, the nationwide music will probably be sung or performed first,” the order learn.The meeting the place the nationwide music is sung shall stand in consideration, it mentioned.The order, which carried a number of directives, mentioned that during all faculties, the day’s paintings shall start with neighborhood making a song of the nationwide music.
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