Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sonali Phogat, who was also a Big Boss 14 contestant passed away on August 22, 2022, in Goa. Her husband Sanjay Phogat died six years ago. 

In 2016, her husband died in mysterious circumstances. His body was found in the ground near their family’s farmhouse. There is no information regarding the cause of death to date. Sonali Phogat was in Mumbai at that time. In the special episode of Late Masala in Big Boss, Sonali revealed that her family history has been that most men of the family have died suddenly. 

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Sonali married Sanjay just after completing class 10th. In an interview with HT she mentioned, “I come from a very humble background. I was born in a farmer’s family. I studied at a government school till Class X and I was married off after that. After marriage, I decided that I want to do something and show the world that women should not be weak but work shoulder to shoulder with men. In Haryana, only the men go out of the house. It was like that in our family as well. My in-laws allowed me to study further but they did not want me to go out and work.” She revealed that after her husband’s demise she was “mentally tortured”. “After my husband passed away, I faced many such hardships, which have made me stronger,” she said. 

She started her career as an anchor in a Haryanvi show on Doordarshan in 2006. In 2019, she appeared in a web series named The story of Badmashgarh. In 2019, she also appeared in a Haryanvi song, Bandook Aali Jaatni. 

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Sonali Phogat has also contested the assembly elections from Adampur. Even after losing from the Adhampur assembly, she did not leave politics. Sonali Phogat has a fifteen-year-old daughter Yasodhara Phogat.