NEW DELHI: Boxer-turned-politician, Congress leader Vijender Singh has joined BJP on Wednesday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi.
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The 38-year-old boxer from Haryana’s Bhiwani district, who won a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was the first Indian boxer to achieve this. He also secured bronze at the 2009 World Championships and the 2010 Commonwealth Games, as well as silver at the 2006 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.
He clinched gold at the 2010 Asian Games.
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In 2009, he received the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna’ award, now known as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, followed by the Padma Shri in 2010.
After entering politics before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on a Congress ticket, he supported farmers’ protests and joined wrestlers’ demonstrations against the former chief of the Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Singh.
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Mathura goes to the polls in the second phase on April 26, and the last date for filing nominations is April 4.
