India, Aug. 23 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday passed a resolution to honour the legacy of Vande Mataram and said it would not allow the national song to be compromised for appeasement politics, as it hit out at the Congress for reaffirming its 1937 decision to sing an abridged version of the song at party events.

The party will also undertake a nationwide campaign to spread the history, meaning and national significance of Vande Mataram across the country, according to the resolution passed at the first meeting of its new office-bearers. The Congress rejected the ruling party's charge, with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accusing the BJP of indulging in "politics of polarisation".

According to the resolution, the...