NC leaders stood for all stanzas of Vande Mataram at the J&K film festival, triggering a cascade of accusations that has now threatened to fracture the INDIA opposition bloc.
The Congress attacked its own ally, calling the full rendition incompatible with the "syncretic and pluralist ethos" of India's freedom fighters like Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagore.
The BJP pounced, framing the dispute as proof of the opposition's "anti-national" character and intensifying a...
