Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken a fresh dig at Congress after it won the Nagpur Graduates' seat in the Maharashtra Legislative Council.
BJP leaders had mocked the party a day earlier for winning "zero" seats in the council polls.
"My deepest apologies to Congress! Yes, you have won ONE seat, not ZERO," Sarma wrote on X on Thursday, adding a laughing emoji.
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My deepest apologies to Congress! Yes, you have won ONE seat, not ZERO. 😂
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) October 29, 2026
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It quote-posted his own message from Wednesday evening, which carried a meme of a lorry hauling a giant tube of Burnol, a burn ointment. "Burn is so big that one tube won't work," he wrote.
That post was itself a response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On Wednesday, Modi had pointed out that elections to 28 Legislative Council seats across Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka were held using ballot papers. "Guess how many seats Congress won?" he asked.
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MLC elections in 28 seats across 4 big states - Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka. Elections held using ballot papers. Guess how many seats Congress won? 🧐
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 28, 2026
The party had not won any of the seats declared by then. In Karnataka, where Congress is in power, the BJP took three seats and the JD(S) one. Counting was still under way in Nagpur.
The taunt was aimed at Congress's campaign for a return to paper ballots, which it has pushed amid its criticism of electronic voting machines. BJP leaders, including J P Nadda, said the result showed the problem was never EVMs.
Congress hit back on Wednesday, challenging Modi to hold Lok Sabha and Assembly elections on ballot papers if he was confident EVMs had no bearing on results.
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The Nagpur result came on Thursday. Congress's Abhijit Wanjarri defeated the BJP's Sudhakar Kohale to retain the seat. Nagpur is the home city of the RSS headquarters, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union minister Nitin Gadkari.
The BJP had held the seat for nearly six decades until Vanjari won it in 2020. The win meant Congress was no longer at zero, and Sarma's post conceded that while keeping up the jibe.
For the BJP, the tally was meant to undercut Congress's EVM allegations. For Congress, the Nagpur win offers a counter.
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