Overview
- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in Gorakhpur that reciting the national song will be compulsory across Uttar Pradesh’s educational institutions.
- He linked resistance to the song with threats to national unity, warning that “no new Jinnah” should emerge in India.
- Education officials indicated a state circular is forthcoming to add the song to daily morning assemblies alongside the national anthem.
- Muslim leaders, including Maulana Haleem Ullah Kasmi, opposed compulsory recitation and urged parents to pull children from schools rather than comply.
- The move comes during a year-long 150th‑anniversary drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as Congress rejects his remarks on 1937 changes, and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urges collective classroom renditions.