Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, will hold a nationwide Hanuman Chalisa recital programme on May 9 to protest controversial remarks by certain Congress leaders. VHP leader Milind Parande said that several Congress leaders in Karnataka, MP, Chhattisgarh, etc have compared the Bajrang Dal with an anti-national organisation like the PFI. He said that the Hindu community will teach a lesson to such leaders. It may be recalled that in the Congress manifesto for Karnataka elections it was mentioned that the party would ban organisations like the Bajrang Dal, although after backlash, the party clarified that there was no proposal to ban the Bajrang Dal.