New Delhi, March 21 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Awadhesh Prasad on Friday condemned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for purportedly talking and gesturing during the national anthem and said that he had shown disrespect to it.

"The way the national anthem is being played on one side, and on the other side, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is talking and gesturing with his hands, this is very condemnable. I don't know what mood the Bihar Chief Minister was in. He does not know about the country's independence, so this is an insult to the national anthem," SP leader Awadhesh Prasad told ANI.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav shared a video in which the Bihar Chief Minister was seen talking and gesturing while the national an...