Olympic Boxer Vijender Singh Quits Congress, Joins BJP (image-twitter/boxervijender)
Another fresh setback to the Congress party as the boxer Vijender Singh, India”s first Olympic medalist in boxing, has joined the BJP. The Olympic medalist has contested the 2019 election poll as a Congress candidate from the South Delhi constituency.
After BJP, Boxer Vijender Singh said, “I have joined BJP today for the development of the country and to serve the people”. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of BJP’s national General Secretary Vinod Tawde.
The athlete has called his sudden move “the king of homecoming”. Singh comes from the Jat community, which has political influence in a large number of seats in Haryana. He hails from the state of western Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The boxer further asserted that the Indian sportsmen are getting across the globe currently is commendable ever since the Modi government came into power.
Earlier, the name of Vijender was going on rounds as there was wide speculation that he might be fielded by the Congress from Mathura against BJP’s Hema Malini, who is in the fray for the third time in a row.
Singh has earlier walked along with Rahul Gandhi in the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in January last year in Haryana’s Karnal.
On March 30, Singh wrote a cryptic one-line post on X triggering speculation about his alliance with the Congress. Singh wrote, “Wherever the public wants, I am ready”.
As of his sporting career, he has etched his name in history by being the nation’s first-ever boxer to win an Olympic medal, bagging a bronze medal from the 2009 World Championships and a gold from the 2010 Commonwealth Games to his medal haul.
His career took a dramatic turn in 2012 when allegations of his involvement in a doping scandal surfaced. However, Singh was finally acquitted in the case.
