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New Delhi, Sept 6: Ahead of the upcoming Haryana Assembly election<\/a>, Olympian wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat joined the Congress in a big boost to the party.
\nPunia and Phogat joined the party in the presence of ith Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, party leader Pawan Khera, Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan and AICC in-charge of Haryana, Deepak Babaria.After being inducted Vinesh Phogat said, \u201cThe fight is continuing, it hasn\u2019t ended yet. It\u2019s in Court. We will win that fight as well\u2026 With the new platform that we are getting today, we will work for the service of the nation.\u201d
\n\u201c\u2026.When we were being dragged on the road, all parties except BJP were with us. I feel proud that I have joined a party which stands with women and is ready to fight from \u2018sadak to sansad\u2019\u2026\u201d said the athlete.
\nBoth the top wrestlers were part of protests by wrestlers over sexual harassment allegations against former BJP MP and then Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh last year.
\n\u201cToday is a big day for the INC. It\u2019s a proud moment for all of us as we welcome Vinesh Phogat ji and Bajrang Punia ji to our Congress family,\u201d KC Venugopal said today.
\nEarlier today, both the wrestlers had called on Congress national President Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence in the national capital.
\nThe development comes ahead of polling for 90-member Haryana Assembly scheduled for October 5 with counting of votes scheduled on October 8.
\nThe wrestlers resigned from their respective positions in Northern Railways earlier in the day.
\nPunia won bronze at the Tokyo Games bronze medallist, while Vinesh Phogat became the first woman wrestler to reach the Olympics final.
\nPhogat announced her retirement from wrestling a short while after she was disqualified from the Paris Olympic Games after being found overweight by about 100 gm in her 50-kg category weigh-in.<\/p>\n

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New Delhi, Sept 6: Ahead of the upcoming Haryana Assembly election, Olympian wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat joined the Congress in a big boost to the party. 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