Congress party had used the tragic incidents at Mandsaur to indulge in politics as they had targetted the Shivraj Singh Chouhan's BJP government before the elections claiming that the state government had deliberately attacked farmers at Mandsaur.
The tradition of singing Vande Mataram on 1st of every month by government employees was instituted by the erstwhile CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan 13 years ago.
Mayawati had earlier, however, cleared that her party does not support Congress' ideologies and policies and that the support extended was mere to prevent the BJP from grabbing power in both the states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.