Vinesh Phogat, Punia Quit Railways, Join Cong, Get A Showcause

Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, the wrestlers and Olympic medallists, joined a politcal party Congress yesterday and got ticket and president’s post of kisan morcha respectively. They both resigned from their services of Indian Railways. The Railways have not yet aceepted their resignations, serving a showcause notice on them both. Brij Bhushan Singh, the chief of Indian wrestlers federation has alleged that his accusations stand vindicated about them both playing to the script of the Congress party.

Vinesh has got a Congress ticket to fight an election to Haryana assembly. Punia has been made president of the party’s kisan morcha. Brij Bhushan also expressed his opinion that Vinesh missing a medal in Paris Olympics was a comeuppance delivered by the God.