Missed out on Olympic medal, but not on becoming MLA, Haryana Assembly is now Vinesh Phogat’s new ‘akhara’

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat has now become an MLA. In the Haryana Assembly elections, Congress had fielded him from Julana Assembly constituency and he won by about 6000 votes. On August 17, when she returned to India dejected from the Paris Olympics, she was given a warm welcome from Delhi to Haryana. Vinesh was welcomed many times more than any Olympic medalist would have been welcomed. After some time, he announced to leave the arena of Dangal and enter the arena of politics. Took retirement from wrestling and then decided to contest elections. Know how his journey was from the mat to the assembly.(Missed out on Olympic medal)

Vinesh Phogat was born in a family where there would hardly have been anyone around her who learned or taught any other discipline other than wrestlers. His uncle and wrestler Mahavir Phogat was his guru. Like his cousins ​​were wrestlers. Similarly, he decided to enter the world of wrestling. He was born on 25 August 1994 and won his first medal in 2013. She was 19 years old at that time. Vinesh won her first silver medal in the Youth Wrestling Championship. Since then he has won dozens of medals in major competitions. However, despite playing in the Olympics thrice, she could not fulfill her and her uncle Mahavir Phogat’s dream of winning a medal in this tournament.(Missed out on Olympic medal)

Despite winning 3 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games, 2 bronze in the World Championship, two medals in the Asian Games and 8 medals in the Asian Championship, she could not even bring a medal in the Olympics. He qualified for the Olympics three times in a row, but did not get a medal once. In the Paris Olympics 2024, she reached the finals by charismatically winning three bouts in a single day and was assured of a medal, but on the morning of the finals she was found to be overweight and was disqualified from the tournament. In such a situation, he did not get any medal. The entire country witnessed whatever had happened to him before and that is what inspired him to enter politics.(Missed out on Olympic medal)

Several months before the preparation for the Olympics, he had started a movement in which he had accused Wrestling Federation of India Chairman Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of misbehaving with women wrestlers and sexually exploiting them. Apart from this, many allegations were also leveled against the Chief of WFI. Vinesh Phogat and many wrestlers had to make rounds of the courts for a long time. Brij Bhushan resigned, but Vinesh was not happy with this either. He was even dragged on the streets by Delhi Police and misbehaved with him. However, at that time she was heading towards the new Parliament. Where everyone was forbidden from going. In such a situation, the police had stopped him.(Missed out on Olympic medal)