5 min readAug 30, 2026 06:36 AM IST First published on: Aug 30, 2026 at 06:30 AM ISTBy Akhilesh JhaHaripura was not merely another annual gathering of the Indian National Congress. In early 1938, Congress assembled there in Gujarat for its 51st Annual Session after the Congress Working Committee meeting in Calcutta in October 1937. And in those intervening months, much had changed in the way Vande Mataram was to be seen, heard and presented.