Former BJP MP and ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Tuesday reacted to wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s victory in the Haryana Assembly polls. 

Calling Phogat’s victory a result of the power of his name, Brij Bhushan said, “If she wins by using my name, it means I am a great man.”

He also said that his name was enough to help Phogat win the elections in Julana. Vinesh Phogat won from Julana constituency by over 6,000 votes on a Congress ticket.

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Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh also said that wherever Phogat goes, destruction follows her and it will happen in future too. 

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 “Wo jahan jahan jaegi, satyanaash hi hoga (Wherever she goes, destruction will follow her). She may have won the election by herself but Congress is completely doomed,” the ex-WFI chief said.

Meanwhile, Vinesh Phogat called her maiden electoral win from the Julana assembly seat in Haryana as “victory of struggle” and “victory of truth”.

Phogat defeated her nearest rival and BJP nominee Yogesh Kumar by a margin of 6,015 votes, according to the Election Commission website. Phogat got 65,080 votes while BJP’s Kumar secured 59,065 votes.

The former chief of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) said that “these wrestlers are not heroes but villains for Haryana”.

He said that the condition of Congress in the country is continuously deteriorating and added that all the efforts of Rahul Gandhi are failing. 

“Now Congress should accept that the people of the country have rejected them,” he said. On the lead taken by the opposition alliance INDIA bloc in the Jammu and Kashmir elections, Singh said the BJP had made an attempt to form the government there, which was not successful.

“The mood and atmosphere of the (political) weather there is different. The mandate is acceptable to us (BJP),” he said.

Phogat and wrestler Bajrang Punia were at the forefront of the wrestlers’ protest against then WFI chief and former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

After the allegations made by the women wrestlers, the BJP did not give Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh a ticket from Kaiserganj and made his son Karan Bhushan Singh the candidate. His son Karan Bhushan Singh won the Lok Sabha polls by a margin of over 1.48 lakh votes defeating SP’s Bhagat Ram.