Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat died due to cardiac arrest

Panaji: Haryana BJP leader and content creator Sonali Phogat on Tuesday died due to cardiac arrest in Goa, confirms Goa DGP Jaspal Singh.

"She has passed away. I have been given information that she was in Goa," Haryana BJP chief O P Dhankar told.

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It was not immediately clear as to when she died.

A former TikTok star, Phogat had joined the BJP in 2019.

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Capt Bhupender, district president of the Hisar BJP said, "Sonali ji was in Goa. I spoke to her assistant and he said that she died of a heart attack".

Phogat had unsuccessfully contested the last assembly election from Adampur Assembly constituency against Kuldeep Bishnoi.

Bishnoi, who was then in Congress, recently joined the BJP. (PTI)

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