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150th anniversary of Vande Mataram - PM Modi inaugurates
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a year-long celebration to mark 150 years of the national song Vande Mataram. Modi, who participated in a ceremony held at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi on Friday morning, released a commemorative stamp and a coin.
- The year-long celebrations to commemorate 150 years of the song, which inspired India's independence movement and inspired national pride and unity, will be held from November 7, 2025 to November 7, 2026.
- The 150th anniversary of the song 'Vande Mataram' is being celebrated today at various places across the country. The full version of the song is being sung at public places, along with a major event, in which people from all sections of society participate.
- The year 2025 marks 150 years of Vande Mataram. Our national song, Vande Mataram, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, was written on Akshaya Navami, November 7, 1875.
- Subsequently, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore composed and sang it at the Calcutta Congress session in 1896. Only then did Vande Mataram become the national song and the rallying cry of the freedom struggle echo across the country.
