India, Dec. 11 -- Congress MP Syed Naseer Hussain on Wednesday attacked the BJP for creating an unnecessary controversy over the national song Vande Mataram, asking whether those who bowed their heads at Muhammad Ali Jinnah's tomb should teach nationalism to them.

Participating in the debate on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram in the Rajya Sabha, he claimed that it is a historical fact that the Congress party has worked to spread Vande Mataram to every nook and corner of the country.

According to him, the controversy over the deletion of some stanzas in the original Vande Mataram poem was settled in the CWC meeting in 1937 and subsequently in the Constituent Assembly.

He claimed that BJP leader L K Advani visited Pakistan in 2005...