# CJP asks BJP to call special session on government schools 2026-08-24T05:04:36+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has criticised the BJP's focus on the Vande Mataram debate, asking why the government does not instead convene a special Parliament session to fix government schools and colleges. In a social media post, CJP spokesperson Saurav Das said the party should focus on improving education so that more personalities like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore could emerge. Das was reacting to a post by BJP leader Smriti Irani about Vande Mataram being sung at a party meeting in Delhi on 22 August. Irani, former Union education minister, was recently appointed as the BJP general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, where assembly elections are scheduled next year. The BJP earlier passed a resolution condemning the Congress for limiting Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas at party events, and launched a nationwide campaign to promote all six stanzas. In July, Parliament passed a law granting Vande Mataram the same legal status as the national anthem, making disruption of its singing a criminal offence. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The Vande Mataram dispute rests on a Congress Working Committee resolution from 1937, the year the party first agreed to sing only the first two stanzas at its events, a compromise with Muslim League leaders who objected to the song's imagery. The BJP now uses a 2026 law that elevated Vande Mataram to the same legal status as the national anthem to argue that the old political compromise is superseded. The real stakes are in Uttar Pradesh, where Smriti Irani was just made general secretary in-charge ahead of next year's assembly elections. Watch whether the BJP's nationwide campaign on the song shifts focus from education and local issues in the state. ## Coverage - livemint.com Straight news report that quotes the CJP criticism without adopting it, then provides background on the Vande Mataram row from the BJP's resolution. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Bharatiya Janata Party, Cockroach Janta Party, Saurav Das, Smriti Irani, Uttar Pradesh, Vande Mataram Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/cjp-asks-bjp-to-call-special-session-on-government-schools/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/cjp-asks-bjp-to-call-special-session-on-government-schools/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/