‘Told You So…’: BJP’s Brij Bhushan Claims ‘Conspiracy’ Against Him As Punia, Phogat Join Congress

Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: Former BJP MP and ex-chief of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has said that after ladies grapplers levelled allegations of sexual harassment against him last year, he had termed it a “conspiracy of the Congress”.

“Senior Congress leaders from Haryana – Deepender Singh Hooda and Bhupinder Singh Hooda – are hatching conspiracy against me. Whatever I had said on day one, I still stand by it. And nowadays, the identical thing is being said by the total us of a,” Singh said at a smartphone distribution function in a deepest school here Thursday.

He made the remarks inside the wake of wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia meeting former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday.

The two joined the Congress on Friday in advance of the Haryana assembly polls.

After joining the celebration, Phogat said the BJP became supporting Singh while the Congress supported the protesting wrestlers when they “were being dragged on the roads” in Delhi.

Punia and Phogat were element of the protest over sexual harassment allegations against Singh in 2023.

At the event, Singh also said, “Now I do now no longer deserve to say deal about this. I will now no longer speak deal on this episode, otherwise this thing will reach Haryana right now. Presently the total us of a is having a look at for Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to say something on this issue,” the former BJP MP said.

“When the ladies wrestlers had levelled allegations against me, I had then said that that's a conspiracy of the Congress,” he said.

“There became a conspiracy against me in 1996 to boot. At that time, my wife Ketki Singh had change into an MP. I was once in Tihar Jail those days as element of a conspiracy. After this, there became a conspiracy against me in 2023 to boot. Then my younger son Karan Bhushan Singh became an MP in my place,” he said.

In 1996, Singh became arrested below the TADA law in a criminal case in Mumbai and became then lodged in Tihar Jail. In his place, the BJP fielded his wife from Gonda inside the Lok Sabha elections and he or she became elected.

After the allegations made by the ladies wrestlers, the BJP did now no longer give Singh a ticket from Kaiserganj and made his son Karan Bhushan Singh the candidate.

Karan Bhushan Singh won the Lok Sabha polls by a margin of over 1.Forty eight lakh votes defeating SP’s Bhagat Ram.

“Before this incident, no person took a selfie with me. Now after this incident, heroes and heroines also take selfies, even saints and sages are taking selfies,” Singh said in his speech.

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