Shivpuri:On  Sunday, Congress senior leader Jyotiraditya  Scindia accused RSS of diverting attention of people from real issues by “igniting” debateson 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' chanting.

Jyotiraditya Scindia said,"Right now, the country's foreign policy is in shambles.Internal security is in the doldrums and farmers are committing suicide. The government is unresponsive to these burning issues. To divert attention of the people, it is igniting debates on the issues like "Bharat Mata Ki Jai', nationalism and Vande Mataram,"

"Jana Gana Mana is today our national anthem. It has to be respected. There is no reason why it should evoke any other sentiment."But it is the national anthem as decided by the Constitution. If one considers the true meaning, then Vande Mataram is the national anthem," He had said on April at the Deendayal Upadhyay Research Institute in Mumbai.

Jyotiraditya added,"It (government) has repeated its act of Arunachal Pradesh in Uttrakhand state. It is like strangulating democracy,"

The former minister aforesaid that, the health services in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh "are on ventilator and that people have lost their eyesight (in some incidents) due to use of fake medicine".