‘History In Remix Mode’: AAP Alleges Rekha Gupta Made A Bhagat Singh Blunder | Politics News

Last Updated:January 06, 2026, 21:27 IST

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta allegedly misrepresented freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s actions in the 1929 bombing as being against the Congress rather than the British regime

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta speaks during the winter session of the legislative assembly, in New Delhi on January 6, 2026. (Image: @gupta_rekha/X/PTI)

In a fresh political controversy, the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta distorted facts surrounding freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s actions in the 1929 bombing of the central legislative assembly in Delhi.

While News18 could not independently verify the AAP’s claims, Rekha Gupta, who was addressing the winter session of the Delhi assembly, allegedly misrepresented Bhagat Singh’s actions as being against the Congress rather than the British regime.

Watch the Delhi assembly proceedings for January 6 here:

Sharing videos of Gupta’s speech, the AAP alleged that she mischaracterised the heroic act of Bhagat Singh by presenting a bizarre and “updated” version of Indian history. Party leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Sanjeev Jha mocked the chief minister for her “blunder” saying “it seems history is now in remix mode”.

According to the videos shared by Bharadwaj and Jha, she allegedly suggested that the 1929 bombing of the central legislative assembly in Delhi was a protest against a Congress government rather than the British regime. Bharadwaj was quick to slam her, stating that she “doesn’t even know that Shaheed Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary from the time before independence”. 

“Big Big Breaking, CM Rekha Gupta embarrasses India, Rekha Gupta ji doesn’t even know that Shaheed Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary from the time before independence,” Bharadwaj said in a post on X.

Watch the video here:

He mocked the CM, pointing out that while even schoolchildren know the 1929 bombing was a protest against British rule, she seemingly believes it happened post-independence against the Congress.

“She thinks that after independence, he threw a bomb in protest against Congress. Even schoolchildren know that Shaheed Bhagat Singh threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929 in protest against the British government,” he said.

Jha only added to the satire by sharing the same video, in which it seems as if Gupta meant to say angrez but slipped up by saying “Congress ki sarkar“.

“Next time, we might even hear that Chandragupta Maurya expanded his empire under the direction of Gandhiji!” Jha wrote in his post, alleging that this was more than a blunder and a deliberate factual distortion of history meant to deeply undermine the legacy of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev.

Watch the video here:

This is not the first time Gupta has been in the news for similar slip-ups. Her “AQI-AIQ” slip-up went viral on social media, during which she mistakenly referred to air quality index (AQI) as a standard for measuring temperature.

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