'When your character is pure...': Yogeshwar Dutt's cryptic post after being denied ticket from Haryana's Gohana

Yogeshwar Dutt

A day after he was overlooked by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership in its selection of candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls, Olympics bronze medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt put out a cryptic post on X.

The wrestler has posted a Hindi poem, which translates to "when the character is pure, why is this your condition? Sinners don't have the right to test you, set out on a search to find yourself". BJP on Wednesday released the first list of 67 candidates for the Haryana assembly polls.

The party has changed the assembly seat of Haryana chief minister Nayab Saini to Ladwa. In Karnal, currently represented in the assembly by Saini, BJP has fielded Jagmohan Anand.

BJP leader and Olympic Medal winning wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt expressed his willingness to contest the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections from the Gohana Assembly Constituency on Friday (August 30, 2024). "I have expressed my wish to contest elections to the Chief Minister and the central leadership. I am a sportsperson, and an Olympic medallist, and I have contested elections from BJP earlier also, so I want to get a chance", said  Dutt while speaking to journalists on August 30.

Yogeshwar Dutt was defeated by Congress in the by-poll for the Assembly seat of Baroda in 2020 and he also lost the seat in 2019 to the Congress's three-time winner Krishan Hooda.

The BJP has ignored Dutt even as the Congress inducted wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia. The two are likely to contest the Haryana state polls -- Phogat from Julana and Punia from Badli. The 90 seats in Haryana Assembly will vote on October 5. The counting of votes is scheduled for October 8. The BJP yesterday released its first list of candidates with 67 names. The Congress is likely to release its first list soon.