Fight against wicked: Priyanka Gandhi targets BJP

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi today claimed that the BJP government during its rule in Haryana betrayed wrestlers, farmers and soldiers, forcing them to wage a struggle against the regime. Addressing rallies in favour of wrestler-turned-Congress candidate from Julana Vinesh Phogat and her loyalist Pardeep Narwal (Bawani Khera), Priyanka struck an emotional chord with people.

Claiming that farmers, soldiers and wrestlers had launched a struggle against the injustice done to them by the saffron party, Priyanka urged the people to vote out the BJP government. Priyanka said Vinesh was denied an Olympic medal despite reaching the finals. “Why was her trust broken in a foreign land? Because she had raised her voice and launched a fight against injustice to her and her fellow wrestlers,” she said, referring to the wrestlers' agitation in Delhi against former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who faced allegations of molestation and harassment.