Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 | From early fears to eventual victory: Vinesh Phogat's luck turns in poll debut

Phogat was up against BJP's Yogesh Bairagi, a former Indian Army captain and a commercial pilot, INLD's Surender Lather and Aam Aadmi Party's Kavita Rani.

Former Olympic wrestler and Congress leader Vinesh Phogat has won from Julana constituency in the 2024 Haryana Assembly Elections.

After the first round of counting, Vinesh was leading by a thin margin of 214 votes which later turned into her first electoral victory.

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After seven rounds of counting, Phogat regained the lead and maintained it till the final 15th round.

At the end, Phogat (with 65,080 votes) won the contest with 6,015 votes margin against BJP's Yogesh Bairagi. The latter managed to poll 59,605 votes.

INLD's Surender Lather came a distant third with 10,158 votes.

Phogat joined the Congress party after returning from the Olympic Games where she faced a heartbreak as she was disqualified from the women's 50-kilogramme freestyle wrestling final for being 100 grams overweight.

She had defeated four-time wrestling world champion Yui Susaki of Japan on her way to the final.

Phogat is not the first woman wrestler from the state to join politics and contest elections. Her cousin Babita Phogat had unsuccessfully contested the assembly polls in 2019 from Charkhi Dadri.

With more than two crore voters, Haryana went to polls in a single phase on October 5 and the results are set to be announced on Tuesday. A total of 1,031 candidates, including 464 Independents and 101 women, are in the fray for Haryana's 90 constituencies.

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Assembly Elections 2024 | In the first assembly polls since the Lok Sabha elections, Narendra Modi and the BJP face a rejuvenated and vindicated Opposition in the Haryana assembly polls. Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir is voting after almost a decade and it remains to be seen how the abrogation of Article 370 has impacted the political landscape of the Valley. Check live updates and track the latest coverage, live news, in-depth opinions, and analyses only on Deccan Herald.

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