NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Monday took aim at Congress’ latest election disaster in Delhi. Thakur called out LoP in Lok Sabha and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi saying, “Rahul ji, zero check karlijiye, (Rahul ji, please check the zero.)“
Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a debate on the Union Budget, Thakur held up a sign that read, “12,00,000 income par 0 tax,” referencing the tax relief for the middle class announced in the budget. He then turned his focus to Congress’ electoral record in Delhi.
“Rahul ji, zero check kar lijiye. Ye Congress ki seaton ki baat nahi hai, (“Rahul ji, please check the zero. This is not about Congress’ seats)” Thakur remarked amid protests from NCP (SCP) MP Supriya Sule.
He then listed the years 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2024, and 2025, questioning how many seats Congress had secured in Delhi in each of those years. His question was met with a resounding “zero” from BJP MPs.
Thakur declared that under Rahul Gandhi’s leadership, Congress had set a record for consistent electoral failure. His remarks came after BJP’s landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly elections, where the party secured 48 out of 70 seats, ending AAP’s decade-long rule. AAP was reduced to just 22 seats. Congress failed to win a single seat, marking its third consecutive zero tally in Delhi polls.
The former Union minister IT minister also targeted Congress leaders for not participating in the ongoing Maha Kumbh, suggesting that they might have been advised against it by “Uncle Soros and Uncle Sam.” He recalled how even former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had taken a dip in the sacred waters but claimed today’s Congress leadership was avoiding it.
“We all know that Maha Kumbh has been going on, I also got an opportunity to take a dip. I cannot explain the supernatural joy I experienced. Even Nehru had taken a dip in the Kumbh but today’s generation is not ready to go.”
“If they had gone, they also would have got an opportunity… maybe Uncle Soros and Sam would have issued a fatwa that no one will go to Ram Temple or take a holy dip in Kumbh,” he said.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hailed BJP’s victory in Delhi, calling it historic and saying that the people had “freed” the city from “AAP-da” (a play on words referring to AAP as a disaster). Addressing BJP workers, Modi declared that the mandate signified the rejection of “shortcuts and lies” in politics and promised rapid development for the capital.
