However, a day later Bhagwat asked the organisation’s cadre to refrain from forcing people to chant the ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogan. For that we will have to live that Bharat in our lives,” Bhagwat had said on March 27. We want to make Bharat (India) rich, free from exploitation and full of self-respect. “We want the whole world to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. Joshi’s comment came days after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said the organisation wants to make the country exploitation-free and full of self-respect and whole world to salute India. This is the difference between the two songs. “However, the sentiments expressed in Vande Mataram denote the nation’s character and style. But the sentiments expressed in Jana Gana Mana have been expressed keeping the state in view,” he said. “When was Jana Gana Mana written? It was written some time back. “We consider things created due to the Constitution to be national,” Joshi said. If one considers the true meaning, then Vande Mataram is the national anthem,” he said on Friday at the Deendayal Upadhyay Research Institute in Mumbai. “But it is the national anthem as decided by the Constitution. There is no reason why it should evoke any other sentiment,” said Bhaiyyaji Joshi, general secretary of the organisaton. “Jana Gana Mana is today our national anthem. A top functionary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has said that ‘Vande Mataram’ is the real national anthem as opposed to the ‘constitutionally-mandated’ Jana Gana Mana.
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