Vinesh Phogat is a former wrestler and currently a politician associated with the Indian National Congress party who will always be known for her tantrums, lies, and strategic deceit to nurture her ambitions.
Vinesh Phogat was born in a Jat family in a village in the Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana to Rajpal Phogat and his wife Premlata Phogat. Her elder uncle Mahabir Singh Phogat is the wrestling godfather of India and is a former national champion.
After Vinesh's father was shot dead in a family dispute, her uncle raised her as his own daughter and transformed her into a hardcore wrestler in the same training ground he groomed his own biological daughters Geeta and Babita Phogat into highly trained wrestlers.
Her career started in 2013 with Bronze Medal in Asian Wrestling Championships in Delhi, but she got a lifetime fame in 2018 when she registered the record to become the first Indian woman to win gold in the commonwealth games. Her small and medium successes continued till 2022.
Her professional fall had started in 2020 when she started displaying Dunning Kruger Effect by overestimating herself with her boastfully imagined superiority complex.
During the 2020 Summer Olympics she couldn't even make to the semifinals as she was badly beaten by Belarusian wrestler Vanesa Kaladzinskaya who smashed her ambitions which her blind followers called her path to become world's number one.
Vanesa Kaladzinskaya avenged her 2017 defeat in Ukraine at the hands of Vinesh Phogat.
The Wrestling Federation of India, the governing body of the wrestling sports in the country had issued a series of action against Vinesh Phogat for her seriously unprofessional and dehumanizing behavior against fellow Indian wrestlers:
Dunning Kruger Effect obsessed Vinesh Phogat baselessly started thinking she is more important than other Indian Olympians, showing a classic case of Inverse Racism.
Her unconditional apology was not unconditional after all, her grudge against WFI led to a cloaked plot against the organization and its leader in what is infamously called as The Wrestlers' Protest 2023.
Vinesh Phogat along with her politically ambitious brother-in-law Bajrang Punia and WFI-chief aspirant Sakshi Malik aka Sakshee Malikkh had plotted a protest against WFI chief Brijbhushan Sharan Singh accusing him and the coaches of sexual harassment of the female protesters.
Vinesh & Company had more interest in scandalizing the sports ecosystem rather than letting law take its course.
The Wrestler Protest Scandal has been analyzed in detail in its page.
Vinesh's critics had proclaimed that the protest was the precursor of her electoral career with Indian National Congress.
After scandalizing the sports ecosystem Vinesh Phogat forcefully obtained various protocol discount to play in the Olympics as the Gov didn't want to fall in her trap of accusations.
In 2024 Olympics in Paris Vinesh Phogat measured overweight compared to her specified weight category. She was disqualified and returned to India without any medal. However she with the help of Indian Olympic Committee (IOC) had challenged the disqualification in the Court of Arbitration of Sports (CAS) with best legal experts like Barrister Harish Salve. They demanded special concession which was rejected.
Vinesh Phogat's balloon of being special was burst by CAS but she blamed IOC and Gov of India of not wanting her to win.
Scandals after scandals and tantrums none bothered about except the Govt of India, Vinesh Phogat remained on her own trip and back in India she was given gold medal by Khap Panchayat, typically village based Kangaroo Courts often drawing headlines for their bizarre verdicts and protocols.
Vinesh Phogat became the first Indian sportsperson ever to disqualify competition and win Gold Medal from Khap Panchayat.
Vindicating her critics' or detractors' words as true, Vinesh Phogat immediately joined Congress party welcomed by Rahul Gandhi and started being more overt on her opposition against BJP. She started visiting farmers' protest and every movement in action against BJP.
During a Congress rally she demanded sedition case against those who laughed at her disqualification.
Her constant lies, propaganda and deceit however brought her the fruit she always wanted, she won the MLA election in Haryana in 2024 by defeating her BJP opponent with a narrow margin.
