Anurag Thakur

Anurag Singh Thakur, popularly referred as Anurag Thakur, was born on October 24, 1974, in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. He is an Indian politician affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Hamirpur.

In March 2020, BOOM debunked a false claim made by Anurag Thakur that he never raised the slogan "desh ke gaddaro ko, goli maaro saalo ko".

We found Thakur's speech from January 27, the Election Commission served a show-cause notice to him, stating that, "By making the aforesaid statements which have the potential of disturbing communal harmony and aggravating the existing differences between social and religious communities, you have violated the above said provisions of Model Code of Conduct and Representation of the People Act, 1951." Thakur responded by claiming he never said "Goli maaro saalo ko (shoot them)", and that he only said the first half of the slogan "Desh ke gaddaron ko (to the traitors of the country)". By this statement, Thakur insinuated that it was the crowd who had raised the slogan and that he could not be held accountable for it.