Chandigarh: Wrestler and Congress candidate Vinesh Phogat on Sunday stated she expects to win every battle with the blessings of individuals as kicks off her marketing campaign for the upcoming meeting election.
Phogat (30) has been fielded from the Julana meeting section for the upcoming meeting ballot.
Polling in Haryana will happen on October 5 whereas the counting of votes for the elections to the 90-member meeting will happen on October 8.
Phogat was accorded a heat welcome when she reached Julana as her supporters, together with aged folks and ladies and members of assorted ‘Khaps’, greeted her with garlands and gave their blessings.
The Congress had on Friday launched its first listing of 32 candidates for the Haryana Meeting polls, naming her among the many social gathering candidates.
Olympians Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, who had been on the forefront of the wrestlers’ protest in opposition to then WFI chief and former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, entered the political enviornment on Friday by becoming a member of the Congress.
Standing atop a automobile, Phogat took the blessings of people that surrounded her 4 wheeler to get a glimpse of her. Amid beats of a ‘dhol’, her supporters chanted ‘Vinesh Phogat zindabad.’
Replying to a query on former BJP MP after which Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Phogat stated, “Brij Bhushan will not be the nation. My nation stands by me. My family members stand by me and so they matter to me.”
Brij Bhushan on Saturday alleged that Phogat and Bajrang Punia had been utilized by the Congress as “pawns” in a “conspiracy” to take management of the WFI and assault the BJP.
To a query, Phogat stated, “My family members supported me. Like they ensured victory in wrestling (throughout her sports activities profession), they’ll proceed their blessings right here (electoral contest) and with their blessings, we are going to win each battle.”
Replying to a different query, she stated the ache of not getting an Olympic medal subsided that very day when the residents of the nation showered love on her after she landed on the airport.
“I’ve to scale back their (folks) ache and it’s my duty,” she added.
“I’m 30 years previous and I’ve come via many challenges. When individuals are with you, one can overcome any problem,” Phogat stated.
Replying to a query on contesting the elections, she stated, “I’m feeling joyful and I’ll attempt to reside as much as their expectations.”
Whereas the wrestler hails from Balali in Charkhi Dadri district, her in-laws’ dwelling city is Julana. Bakhta Khera village in Julana is the native village of her husband Somvir Rathee.
Later addressing a gathering at Bhakta Khera village, Phogat stated she’s going to stay grateful to god if she is ready to cut back folks’s issues.
“The land of Jind is historic. Folks listed here are very courageous,” she stated as she sought help and blessing of individuals for the electoral battle and promised that she’s going to keep in village and can at all times be amongst them.
“It doesn’t matter whether or not I win or lose (electoral battle). Now we have a home right here and I’ll keep right here,” she stated.
She thanked the Congress social gathering for giving her the ticket to contest.
Phogat additionally stated social gathering chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had supported them after they had been holding a protest in Delhi.
“At that stage we felt that we had been missing braveness and in addition felt that we must always go away the nation. We had been feeling insulted. However Priyanka ji instructed me to not lose braveness and requested us to reply via wrestling,” she stated.
“I love Rahul Gandhi ji. I’m seeing that he has been assembly folks for the previous two-three years and attempting to know their ache,” she stated.
She additionally thanked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and stated she assured him to carry out any duty they entrust together with her.
“Your respect will at all times be above every thing,” she instructed the gathering.
“The nation has given me loads and so has wrestling. No matter I’m right now is due to this sport,” she stated.
She requested folks to again their daughters in reaching their goals.
Phogat turned the primary Indian girl wrestler to achieve the Olympics last, the stage the place she was disqualified in Paris after being discovered chubby by about 100 grams in her 50-kilogramme class weigh-in.
She subsequently introduced her retirement from the game.
