Bhupinder Singh Hooda Says Congress Would Have Sent Vinesh Phogat to Rajya Sabha if They Had Numbers

Bhupinder Singh Hooda Says Congress Would Have Sent Vinesh Phogat to Rajya Sabha if They Had Numbers

Previous Haryana boss clergyman Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Thursday that the Congress would have sent Olympian Vinesh Phogat to Rajya Sabha, assuming they had the numbers in the state.

The Political Race Commission had on August 7 declared the timetable for holding the bypoll to fill a Rajya Sabha seat from the state.

The seat fell empty after occupant Deepender Singh Hooda got chosen for the Lok Sabha from Rohtak electorate.

The term of this Upper House seat closes April 9, 2026.

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Hooda had on Wednesday emphasized that the party wouldn’t handle a contender for the Upper House byelection. “Since the Congress doesn’t have the numbers in the House, it won’t handle a possibility for the Rajya Sabha bypoll. Be that as it may, on the off chance that a gathering of 16-17 MLAs fields a competitor against the BJP, we will loan backing to them,” Hooda had said.

Responding to the declaration by Haryana boss priest Nayab Singh Saini that Vinesh would be compensated as each silver medallist is, the Congress chief said that the Haryana government ought to regard her as a gold decoration champ. “The public authority ought to likewise intercede to figure out how she got excluded. It’s very intriguing,” Hooda added.