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New Delhi: Overlooked by the BJP leadership in its selection of candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls, Olympics bronze medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt put out a cryptic post on X this morning. The wrestler has posted a Hindi poem, which translates to \u201cwhen the character is pure, why is this your condition? Sinners don\u2019t have the right to test you, set out on a search to find yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Dutt, who joined the BJP in 2019, had earlier expressed willingness to contest the upcoming election from Gohana seat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have expressed my wish to contest elections to the Chief Minister and the central leadership. I am a sportsperson, and an Olympic medallist, and I have contested elections from BJP earlier also, so I want to get a chance,\u201d he told the media last week.<\/p>\n
The wrestler has got poll opportunities twice in the past, but failed to score a win. In the 2019 Assembly election, the BJP fielded him in Baroda seat. He lost to Congress\u2019s Krishan Hooda by nearly 5,000 votes. Following Mr Hooda\u2019s death, Baroda went to the polls again. In the 2020 election, Mr Dutt lost again, this time to Congress\u2019s Indu Raj Narwal.<\/p>\n
The BJP has ignored Mr Dutt even as the Congress inducted wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia. The two are likely to contest the Haryana state polls \u2014 Ms Phogat from Julana and Mr Punia from Badli.<\/p>\n
Mr Dutt and Ms Phogat and Mr Punia were on the opposite sides during the massive row over sexual harassment allegations against former wrestling boss and former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. At one point, Ms Phogat had accused the fellow wrestler of intimidating women wrestlers who complained against the BJP heavyweight and discouraging wrestlers from joining the protests against him. The wrestling world, she had said, will remember Mr Dutt for licking the soles of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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