Congress MP Imran Masood on Monday claimed that no RSS leader had ever sung the Vande Mataram, asserting that it was Congress workers who had gone to jail while raising the slogan during the freedom struggle.

Speaking to ANI, Masood also criticised the RSS and BJP for unnecessarily bringing former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru into every conversation.

He said, “Was this song theirs? Which RSS leader sang this, went to jail, and who was raising slogans on the roads? They were all Congress workers. Guru Rabindranath Tagore included two paragraphs in the song, will they speak against him as well?. They tell an incomplete history. They repeat Nehru’s name. If Nehru were not there, then they would not have been in the first place. Without Nehru, the country would have been like Somalia. Neh

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