Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is not a wrestler, he is a politician by profession, however, he is the current president of the Wrestling Federation of India.
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After he became the president, he shared in an interview that the wrestlers need someone strong to control them.
“They (wrestlers) are strong boys and girls. You need someone strong to control them. Is there anyone stronger than me here,” he said.
Born on January 5, 1957, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh studied law at Saket P. G. College in Ayodhya. He is a six-time Member of Parliament, five times from BJP, and one time from Samajwadi Party.
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In 1991, he was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha from Gonda constituency in Uttar Pradesh as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. He was re-elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999 from the same constituency, and in 2004, he was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Balrampur constituency in Uttar Pradesh state on the BJP ticket.
Brij Bhushan joined the Samajwadi Party on July 20, 2018, after BJP expelled him for cross-voting in the parliament during the 2008 Lok-Sabha vote of confidence.
In 2009, he was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Kaiserganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh state. He later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party months before the 16th general election and is currently a member of 17th Lok Sabha from BJP.
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