{"id":11983,"date":"2026-02-11T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:24:25","slug":"vande-mataram-sung-from-heart-not-by-order-choudhary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/vande-mataram-sung-from-heart-not-by-order-choudhary\/","title":{"rendered":"Vande Mataram sung from heart, not by order: Choudhary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Feb 11:\u00a0<\/strong>Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary on Wednesday said that Vande Mataram has always been sung by Indians from the heart, not because of any order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me, who doesn\u2019t sing Vande Mataram in India? People don\u2019t need any direction for it. They sing it from the heart,\u201d Choudhary told reporters in Jammu while responding to recent guidelines on the singing of the national song.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy CM said the song holds deep emotional and historical significance, having been sung by people of all faiths during India\u2019s freedom struggle. \u201cBefore 1947, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians sang Vande Mataram with emotion and unity. It symbolised the spirit of independence, not compulsion,\u201d he said, adding that anything sung from the heart carries passion and passion always leads to sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting out at the BJP, Choudhary said, \u201cI want to remind those in the BJP who often raise slogans in Jammu and Kashmir that they once promised to bring ten heads in exchange for one. We are still waiting for that day. Let us hope their promises are not as hollow as the ones about Rs 15 lakh in every account or two crore jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further added that the country\u2019s real need is employment for the youth, not religious polarisation. \u201cIndia has enough temples, mosques and gurudwaras. What we need are jobs for the educated and unemployed youth. The government\u2019s priority should be livelihood, not where a temple or mosque is being built,\u201d the Deputy CM said<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 11:\u00a0Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary on Wednesday said that Vande Mataram has always been sung by Indians from the heart, not because of any order. \u201cTell me, who doesn\u2019t sing Vande Mataram in India? People don\u2019t need any direction for it. They sing it from the heart,\u201d Choudhary told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11985,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}