Kharge's Vande Mataram dare to BJP: Slap case on Gandhi, Nehru

The controversy was triggered by Sonia Gandhi’s gestures at Congress’ I-Day event. BJP has said that singing of all six stanzas of Vande Mataram was an integral feature of the freedom struggle until Congress gave in to pressure from those aligned with Muslim League and curtailed it to just two stanzasNEW DELHI: Congress and BJP tussled over Vande Mataram Tuesday with the opposition party's president Mallikarjun Kharge defiantly declaring Congress would restrict to only two stanzas of the national song despite a just-passed law requiring all its six stanzas to be rendered, and BJP hitting back by saying the party which curtailed the song because of Muslim hardliners should stop claiming to be the "sole custodian of freedom movement"."I sang Vande Mataram that Gandhi, Nehru and Patel sang, t