New Delhi, Dec. 8 -- BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Monday criticised Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for not attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address in the Lok Sabha, saying the Gandhi family is afraid to discuss Vande Mataram.

Addressing the Lower House of the Parliament during a discussion on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram, Anurag Thakur lauded PM Modi, saying his address with serve as a historical document for the coming generation.

Thakur said, "Prime Minister Modi initiated a discussion on Vande Mataram. In the 100th anniversary year of Vande Mataram, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed an Emergency and destroyed the Constitution. PM Modi, in his address, kept forward the history and cultura...