Congress fields boxer Vijender Singh as Lok Sabha candidate from South Delhi constituency

Vijender Singh will face a fight against Aam Admi party candidate Raghav Chaddha and the sitting BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri in South Delhi constituency.

Indian boxer Vijender Singh poses for photographers after a press conference (Photo by Sajjad Hussain/ AFP)

New Delhi: Congress has fielded Indian boxer and Olympic Bronze medalist Vijender Singh, from South Delhi constituency for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. After getting the ticket from Congress, Singh who was employed as an officer in the Haryana Police resigned from his post. A communiqué signed by Mukul Wasnik , Congress general secretary incharge of the Central Election Committee stated: “ The Central Election Committee has approved the candidature of Shri Vijender Singh as Congress candidate to contest the ensuing general elections to the Lok Sabha from 7-South Delhi parliamentary constituency of NCT of Delhi”. Vijender Singh is an Indian professional boxer and the current WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight Champion and WBO Oriental Super Middleweight Champion. He hails from Kaluwas, Bhiwani district in Haryana Singh has brought several laurels to India as a boxer. At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, he won the Bronze medal after losing the semi-final bout against Kazakhstan's Bakhtiyar Artayev. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he defeated Carlos Góngora of Ecuador 9–4 in the quarterfinals which garnered him a bronze medal—the first ever Olympic medal for an Indian boxer. Vijender Singh will face a fight against Aam Admi party candidate Raghav Chaddhaand the sitting BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri  in South Delhi constituency . Congress has fielded former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit from North-East Delhi, Ajay Maken from New Delhi and JP Agarwal from Chandni Chowk, Arvinder Singh Lovely from East Delhi, Rajesh Lilothia from North-West Delhi and Mahbal Mishra from West Delhi. Delhi will go to polls on May 12 in the sixth phase of elections and the last day of filing nominations here is April 23. The counting of votes will begin on May 23.