Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament and the party's national spokesperson Sambit Patra, on Thursday, criticised the Congress over media reports regarding a senior Congress leader Vidhu Bhusan Das singing Bangladesh's national anthem, Amar Sonar Bangla, during a party meeting in Assam's Sribhumi district recently.

Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneswar, BJP leader Patra expressed shock that the senior Congress leader began the meeting of the party's Seva Dal at Sribhumi on October 27 by singing the national anthem of Bangladesh.

He alleged that this reflects the Congress party's politics of appeasement and its desperation to pamper the illegal infiltrators for vote-bank politics.

He also clarified that the BJP has no issues with the national anthem of Ba

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