Sonali Phogat passed away quite suddenly but her untimely death in Goa at the age of 42 has become a sensational murder case. Tiktok star and Bigg Boss 14 contestant aside, the BJP leader’s career graph shows that he had humble beginnings, but his thrust into prominence also meant that he courted many controversies.
His death, who was earlier suspected of a heart attack, is now behind bars in a murder case along with his personal assistant Sudhir Sangwan and his friend Sukhwinder. Phogat’s family has accused Sangwan and his associate of rape.
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When her husband Sanjay Phogat died under mysterious circumstances in 2016, Phogat had said that she never imagined that a man like her would suddenly pass away. While his death remains a mystery to this day, it would not be unusual to say under what circumstances the actor-turned-politician died on August 23.
Phogat’s career has always been reflected in her desire to be seen on TV or on the big screen. The BJP leader from Hisar started out as an anchor on Doordarshan, later rose to fame on TikTok and graduated as an actress as well as a contestant in Bigg Boss, which was a controversy favourite.
Born on September 21, 1979 in the small village of Bhuthan Kalan, Phogat completed her schooling from Pioneer Convent School, Fatehabad and completed her BA degree from Maharishi Dayanand University, Haryana. Her father is a farmer and she has three sisters and one brother.
Her professional career began in 2006 when she was an anchor on Hisar DD, after which she joined the BJP’s National Working Committee in 2008. She was appointed as the National Vice President of Mahila Morcha. Like all aspiring actors, Phogat moved to Mumbai in 2016. But, when she started taking up acting roles, her husband Sanjay was found dead at their farmhouse in Hisar. He is also said to have been active in local, social and political circles. Phogat has a teenage daughter, who demanded justice for her mother, saying she could not die of a heart attack and was “murdered”.
While Phogat appeared in a few Haryanvi films with actors like Jimmy Shergill and Ravi Kishan and played roles in television and web series, she was actually a social media star in her own right.
As for his political career, Phogat unsuccessfully contested the 2019 assembly election against Kuldeep Bishnoi on a BJP ticket from Adampur assembly constituency of Hisar for the first time. During this, he created his first controversy for allegedly giving abusive language during his election campaign in Balsamand village of Adampur constituency. He asked people to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and said that those who are not there should be from Pakistan. He was criticized for the comments and later had to apologize.
Bishnoi, who was then in the Congress, recently joined the BJP. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, and BJP leaders OP Dhankhar and Bishnoi took to Twitter to condole Phogat’s demise. Phogat had recently also tweeted pictures of meeting Bishnoi a few days back. Popular on social media, the leader’s Twitter is flooded with recent pictures of a tricolor rally to commemorate 75 years of India’s independence. She is decked out in traditional Haryanvi dress from head to toe, waving and waving a flag from the roof of a car.
She came into limelight when, two years ago in 2020, a video of Phogat slapping a market committee official from Hisar and later thrashing him with a slipper for making derogatory remarks against him went viral on social media. . He had a lot of followers on Tiktok and has 8,85,000 followers on Instagram. Her profile describes her as a mother, actor and content creator.
In Phogat’s last post on Instagram, she is seen in a pink turban. Similar pictures were uploaded on his Facebook profile around the same time.
Education Minister and BJP leader Kanwar Pal said his death was a setback for the party. “I spoke to his sister and two brothers and expressed my condolences,” Pal said. Many politicians and influencers mourned his death on the internet, even among opposition parties such as the Congress and AAP.
“We cannot believe that he died of a heart attack… there should be a CBI inquiry into his death,” said Bhup Singh, a villager.
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