Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia join Congress ahead of Haryana Assembly polls
They thanked the Opposition party for supporting them during last year’s protests against former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
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Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the Congress on Friday ahead of polling for the Haryana Assembly elections on October 5.
Both wrestlers are Haryana natives.
“I thank the Congress very much because it is only in bad times that we realise who is our own,” Phogat told reporters on Friday.
She also spoke about the protests against former Wrestling Federation of India chief and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, which she participated in.
In January last year, several top wrestlers of the country, including Sakshri Malik, Phogat and Punia, launched a protest against Singh accusing him of intimidation and sexual harassment.
The protestors were manhandled by the police at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on May 3, 2023.
“When we were being dragged on the road, all of you were with us except the Bharatiya Janata Party,” she said. “You were able to understand our pain and tears. I am proud that I am associated with an ideology that stands against the injustice done to women and is ready to fight for their rights from the streets to the Parliament.”
The protests resumed in April after no punitive action was taken against Singh by a committee that was formed to investigate the allegations.
Singh, a former BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh, stepped down from his post and...
