bir babran haryana its dark and theres no electricity at the village school someone in the sparse crowd throws up a bright idea switch on the headlights of the cars darkness dispelled rookie bjp candidate sonali phogat begins her speech with the slogan bharat mata ki jailast week the chant tossed her into a controversy in balsamand the village she was born when some young men didnt respond with enthusiasm she asked them sarcastically kya aap pakistan se aaye ho now she explains i was only encouraging them to say bharat mata ki jai i am 40 they were college kids much younger to me when they didnt i felt angry it was natural but i didnt say anything to hurt anyonesonalis been among the top eyeballgrabbing campaigns in the 2019 haryana poll and thats primarily for two reasons one she is a tiktok star in over 200 videos sonali has lipsynced bollywood chartbusters like kya dekhte ho surat tumhari film qurbani yeh haseen waadiyan yeh khula aasman film roja hum tere bin kabhi reh nahi paate film sadak since she became the saffron partys adampur candidate in hisar district her following has swelled to 186 lakh for the campaign she has efficiently harnessed social media many of her speeches are shown live on facebooktwo sonali is pitted against incumbent congress mla kuldeep bishnoi the 51yearold son of former haryana chief minister bhajan lal the seat has been a family pocketborough bjp has never won adampurit is a david versus goliath scenario in the previous assembly polls bishnoi earned 47 of the votes bjp got less than 7 per cent bajrang das garg chief spokesperson of haryana congress sounds confident on phone bishnoi will win again by huge margin he saysbut phogat feels the voters are ready for change has kuldeepji solved your problems she asks the gathering while canvassing he might be saying i will attend to them when i become cm but manohar lal ji khattar will be the cm and bjp will get more than 75 seats stamp your ballot on the lotus make me your mla i will work for you she says haryana assembly has 90 seats0431tik tok star campaigns in haryanasonali 40 has acted in television serials anchored shows acting has been my hobby whenever i get good work i do it she says she comes from a family of farmers married after high school her husband died reportedly in suspicious circumstances in dec 2016 she has a young daughtersonali joined bjp 12 years ago and was recently made vicepresident of the state mahila morcha since my childhood i wanted to do something for the country but i never found a way to do it my inlaws family was associated with inld relatives from my mothers side were linked with congress i was not interested in politics but things changed after i met sumitra mahajan she told me about bjp how the party functions i was inspired by rashtriya bhavna nationalist feeling and the