BJP routed us so badly it knocked sense into us: Rahul

October 10, 2017 17:19

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls helped him "a lot".

"The BJP helped me a lot. They have really helped me. We lost 2014 but the defeat could not have helped us more. Itni buri tarah haraya ki pit pitkar humein akal aa gayi (They beat us so badly in 2014 that it drilled sense into us)," Rahul said, expressing "gratitude" to the BJP for his party's virtual wipeout after 10 years in power.

"They helped me a lot by pitai karke, gaali deke, maar maarke (they beat me, abused me, thrashed me). They opened my eyes."

Ahead of polls in Gujarat later this year, Gandhi is touring the BJP's strongest citadels in the state where the Congress has been out of power for nearly 20 years.

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