Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia will be joining the India National Congress at 1:30 pm today, ahead of the Haryana Assembly elections. The development comes mere days after the two wrestlers met with the party’s leader, Rahul Gandhi, in New Delhi on September 4.
After the meeting between the political leader and the star Olympians, the move to join the political party was widely speculated.
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