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CHANDIGARH, Sep 11: The Julana assembly seat in Haryana’s Jind district is set to witness a keen electoral bout with the BJP fielding Capt Yogesh Bairagi, a former commercial pilot, against Congress’ wrestler-turned-politician Vinesh Phogat for the October 5 assembly poll.Bairagi’s name featured in the BJP’s second list of candidates for Haryana polls released on Tuesday.
The 35-five-year-old BJP nominee is currently the vice president of Haryana BJP’s youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), and co-convenor of the BJP Sports cell.
He expressed gratitude to the party leadership for nominating him from the Julana seat and said he will work hard to ensure the party wins in the upcoming election.
The Julana assembly segment drew attention after the Congress fielded Olympian wrestler Phogat from this Jat-dominated constituency.
Though the wrestler hails from Balali in Charkhi Dadri district, her in-laws’ hometown is Julana. Bakhta Khera village in Julana is the native village of her husband Somvir Rathee. Phogat (30) took retirement from wrestling before foraying into politics.
Phogat and Bajrang Punia, who were at the forefront of the wrestlers’ protest against then WFI chief and former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, recently joined the Congress.
AAP releases list of 21 candidates
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released a list of 21 candidates for the Haryana Assembly polls on Wednesday, fielding Kavita Dalal from Julana against the Congress’s Vinesh Phogat and BJP’s Yogesh Bairagi.
This is the fourth list of candidates released.The AAP’s first list of 20 candidates for the Haryana polls was released on Monday as its seat-sharing talks with the Congress broke down.The Arvind Kejriwal-led party has so far declared 61 candidates for the polls. (PTI)

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