NEW DELHI: Congress Tuesday demanded that BJP expel its MPs Anant Kumar Hegde and Pragya Thakur to prove its “much professed and publicised love for Mahatma Gandhi”.AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said the BJP leadership was paying lip service to Gandhi while its members were repeatedly insulting the Father of the Nation. He termed as sham the BJP’s demand for an apology from its MP Hegde, recalling that another MP Pragya Thakur recently called Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse “a patriot”.“It is a sham to maintain the fig leaf that now barely covers the naked hatred and contempt that BJP and RSS have towards the Mahatma, as indeed generations of freedom fighters who gave away their life in the cause of an Independent Mother India,” he said.