JIND: BJP Rajya Sabha MP and former Nationwide Fee for Ladies chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday claimed that Commonwealth Video games medal winner and Congress MLA Vinesh Phogat lied about sure issues to enter politics.
With out naming anybody in opposition to whom Phogat levelled the allegations, Sharma stated Phogat used this “false” narrative for her profit, and this led her to turn into an MLA from Julana. Sharma made the claims when she was in Julana city of Jind district on Sunday to fulfill get together employees in reference to city native physique elections in Haryana. At the same time as Sharma made the claims, a case of sexual harassment in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India former chief Brij Bhushan Saran Singh is already in court docket. Vinesh had, together with wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, had sat on a protest for lengthy to demand motion in opposition to Brij Bhushan.
A Delhi court docket had, in Might final 12 months, framed the fees of sexual harassment and utilizing drive to outrage ladies’s modesty in opposition to Brij Bhushan within the prison case filed in opposition to him by the feminine wrestlers.
After she had been disqualified from the Paris Olympics final 12 months, Vinesh had additionally accused Indian Olympics Affiliation president P T Usha of not offering her sufficient assist. Sharma additionally accused Phogat of creating statements that have been “detrimental to Indian society and govt”. “The government supported her, and the case she filed in opposition to somebody is in court docket, and that particular person in query can be punished,” stated Sharma.
She added Phogat turned all of this right into a political situation to make her entry into politics. “That is my first go to to Julana. Maybe I ought to have come earlier. That was a mistake. The seat we misplaced, we would not have misplaced if I got here sooner,” she stated.
Two months in the past, Sharma was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana. She changed the state’s rural improvement and panchayat minister Krishna Lal Panwar, who resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat after being elected because the MLA from Israna in Panipat. The time period of a Rajya Sabha MP is six years, however Sharma’s time period can be three and a half years, lasting till August 1, 2028, because the remaining time period was accomplished by Panwar.
