Dutt, who won a bronze award at the 2012 London Olympic Games and the main third Indian grappler to win an Olympic decoration had joined BJP in September 2019.

After much hypothesis and with brief period left for the designation cutoff time to close, the BJP on Thursday named Olympian Yogeshwar Dutt 

as its contender for up and coming high-stake Baroda Assembly bypoll planned for November 3. The last date for recording selections is October 16. 

Dutt, who challenged his lady political fight against Congress' three-time MLA Sri Krishan Hooda from Baroda, had lost by a slight edge of more than 5,000 votes in the 2019 Assembly surveys. 

Dutt, joined by different other senior sportspersons from Haryana arrived at New Delhi Thursday morning and met CM Manohar Lal Khattar. During the gathering Karnal MP Sanjay Bhatia and Agriculture serve J P Dalal were additionally present. As indicated by sources, Khattar had guaranteed Dutt that his name was likewise among the four up-and-comers shortlisted by the state unit of the BJP and a similar rundown was sent to the focal unit for accepting the last approach the gathering's candidate for Baroda get together section. 

Dutt, who won a bronze decoration at the 2012 London Olympic Games and the main third Indian grappler to win an Olympic award had joined BJP in September 2019, scarcely a long time before the state went for 2019 Assembly surveys. He was assigned by BJP from Baroda Assembly portion, however lost. 

Throughout the previous not many days, Dutt and BJP's previous state boss Subhash Barala had been visiting different towns across Baroda Assembly section. 

The principle resistance in Haryana, Congress and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), were additionally expected to proclaim their competitors after 12 PM. 

BJP additionally delivered its rundown of star campaigners for Baroda bypoll. Driven by CM Manohar Lal Khattar, a few senior heads of Haryana BJP figured among the 30 star campaigners. The star campaigners included Dushyant Kumar Gautam, Om Prakash Dhankar, Rao Indrajeet Singh, Krishanpal Gurjar, Sanjeev Balyan, Ratanlal Kataria, Anil Vij, Kanwarpal Gurjar, Moolchand Sharma, Ranjeet Singh, JP Dalal, Banwarilal, Sandeep Singh, Kamlesh Dhanda, Ramchandra Jangra, DP Vats, Ramesh Kaushik, Dharamveer Singh, Sunita Duggal, Arvind Sharma, Nayab Singh Saini, Brijendra Singh, Sanjay Bhatia, Virendra Singh, Rambilas Sharma, Subhash Barala, Capt Abhimanyu, Bishamber Balmiki and Krishan Panwar. 

Prior in the day, at any rate eight applicants including Kurukshetra's previous MP and Loktantra Suraksha Party's Rajkumar Saini recorded their assignment papers for Baroda bypoll. The assignments can be recorded till 3 pm on Friday, while the competitors can pull back their designations by October 19. 

Congress' previous Haryana boss Ashok Tanwar likewise fuelled hypotheses when he gave an announcement during the day that BJP planned to assign its previous Cabinet serve Rambilas Sharma as gathering's applicant from Baroda Assembly fragment. Tanwar likewise declared that on the off chance that Bhupinder Singh Hooda challenges on Congress ticket and Manohar Lal Khattar challenges from BJP ticket then he will likewise challenge as an Independent up-and-comer in Baroda.