Dehradun, Aug. 22 -- The Uttarakhand Congress on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Uttarakhand BJP president Mahendra Bhatt over his remarks on Vande Mataram, calling the statement "absurd and unbecoming".

In an official statement, Congress spokesperson Pratima Singh alleged that Bhatt's remarks reflected "ideological narrow-mindedness and political bankruptcy".

BJP's state unit president had said that Congress' decision to sing two stanzas of Vande Mataram was "anti-national and unconstitutional".

Targeting the BJP, Singh said, "It is extremely ironic and shameful that leaders of an organisation which remained completely absent from the freedom movement, and which did not hoist India's national flag, the Tricolour, at its Nagpur hea...