Beginning a new innings, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, the 2010 CWG gold medallist, on Tuesday, 11 December, won the Sadulpur Assembly seat in Rajasthan defeating sitting BSP MLA Manoj Nyangali.
Contesting on a Congress ticket, Poonia won by a healthy margin of 18,084 votes after receiving 70,020 votes.
The Congress won 99 seats in the house of 199 while the BJP won 73.
The 36-year-old athlete had hurled the disc to 61.51m to claim a gold medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
She had finished sixth at the 2012 London Olympics with her best throw of 63.62 m coming in the fifth attempt.
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