Face of Nation : The resignation of international wrestler Babita Phogat from Haryana Police has been accepted and the grappler, who had last month joined the BJP, is likely to contest the upcoming state Assembly polls. Babita and her father Mahavir Phogat, a noted wrestling coach, had joined the BJP on August 12.
The 29-year-old sub-inspector with Haryana Police had submitted her resignation a month ago, which was accepted on September 10, Surinder Pal Singh, Commandant, 5th Battalion, Haryana Armed Police, Madhuban, told PTI on Thursday.
“Babita Phogat’s resignation was received a month ago and there is a process which follows before it is accepted. The resignation has been accepted now,” he said.
Babita had been appointed in Haryana Police under the sports quota by the then Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government in 2013. Speculation are rife that Babita will be given a ticket by the BJP either from Badhra or Dadri in Charkhi Dadri district to contest the state Assembly polls, which are slated to be held in October.
Babita and Mahavir Phogat had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, party’s general secretary in charge of Haryana Anil Jain and its state chief Subhash Barala in New Delhi.
The Phogat household became popular nationwide following the success of Bollywood film ‘Dangal’, based on the lives of Phogat sisters, all of them wrestlers, and their father who coached them against all odds.
