India, Aug. 17 -- The Manipur BJP on Sunday staged a demonstration in front of the Congress Bhavan in Imphal to protest against Sonia Gandhi's alleged "objection" to singing of the full version of 'Vande Mataram' during an Independence Day event in New Delhi.

More than 50 BJP workers, holding the national flag and posters of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the song's writer, raised slogans and played 'Vande Mataram' on loudspeakers outside the Congress Bhavan.

"The Congress disrespected the national song. We are staging a protest against that. Speaking or moving when the national song is being sung is highly disrespectful," Manipur BJP general secretary K Sarat Kumar Singh told reporters here.

Security was heightened in the area to preve...