Yet, he cautioned that there might well be a day when this same Congress that is so steeped in Muslim appeasement and its leader Gandhi might decide to scrap this song in case some members of the Muslim community oppose the Hindu iconography in the verses. The party needed to guard against such tendencies too, he cautioned.25 His statement was to be quite prophetic as that was precisely what the Congress did by eventually junking the song and adopting ‘Jana Gana Mana’ of Rabindranath Tagore as the national anthem of free India.
