Freedom fighters chanted Bharat Mata ki Jai: Prasad

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said many leaders of the India's freedom struggle chanted 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'.

"While during pre-independence days, some noted people breathed their last after chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai," Prasad said and referred to Abdul Kalam Azad and Abdul Hameed in this regard and added that it should be chanted without any issue as it comes out of the heart.

The Minister for Communication and Information Technology the termed flyover collapse in as "unfortunate" and called for a fair probe into the incident.

"The guilty, even if he is a leader or an officer, should not be spared," he said.