New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed the Congress party over the alleged "insult" to the national song, questioned the party's mindset and asked it to stop claiming a "monopoly" over India's freedom movement.

Addressing a press conference, the senior BJP leader referred to an incident at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day and a recent event in Goa.

"We felt compelled to address the embarrassing incident that occurred at the Congress headquarters on August 15th. Initially, it appeared as though Sonia ji was protesting against the singing of the full Vande Mataram; later, her intellectually gifted media head claimed that a chair was simply being sought for Kharge-sahab. That was absolute n...