New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- BJP national working president Nitin Nabin launched a blistering attack on the Congress, alleging that the opposition party's decision to sing only the first two stanzas of "Vande Mataram" at its programmes exposes what he called the party's "hunger for that vote bank before which it has repeatedly pawned the nation's self-respect".

He said the Congress Working Committee's (CWC) move was "not merely a political defence, but proof" of this pattern, and claimed that "the Congress has now become the new Muslim League of today".

"The Congress has now formalised its insult into a resolution. Its working committee has decided that only the first two stanzas of 'Vande Mataram' will be sung at Congress forums. When, just a...