{"id":"babita-kumari","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/babita-kumari","language":"en","name":"Babita Kumari","name_en":"Babita Kumari","name_ne":"बबिता कुमारी","description":"Nepalese politician","headline":"Nepalese politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Babita Kumari Phogat (born 20 November 1989) is a former Indian professional wrestler and a politician from the state of Haryana. She is a multiple Commonwealth Games medalist, winning the gold medal in 2014 Commonwealth Games, and silver medals at the 2010 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. When she won the 2014 Commonwealth gold medal, she became the second Indian women wrestler to win a Commonwealth gold in the 55 kg category after her sister Geeta Phogat, who had won it in 2010.","summary_more":["Babita participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics in the 53 kg women's wrestling, though she could not make it to the podium. Earlier, she had won a bronze medal at the 2013 Asian Wrestling Championships tournament in New Delhi, India; and another bronze at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships. Later in 2019, after retiring from sports, Babita Phogat entered politics by joining the Bharatiya Janata Party."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"18 July 1975","date":"1975-07-18"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805#P569"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Rastriya Janata Party Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30635746"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805#P102"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"member of the Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63639120"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babita_Kumari","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Babita Kumari born?","a":"Babita Kumari was born on 18 July 1975."},{"q":"What positions has Babita Kumari held?","a":"Positions held by Babita Kumari include: member of the Provincial Assembly of Madhesh Province."}],"related":[{"name":"Dimpal Kumari Jha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dimpal-kumari-jha"},{"name":"Saroj Kumar Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/saroj-kumar-yadav"},{"name":"Saraswati Chaudhary","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/saraswati-chaudhary"},{"name":"Ram Saroj Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-saroj-yadav"},{"name":"Satish Kumar Singh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/satish-kumar-singh"},{"name":"Upama Kumari Dev","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/upama-kumari-dev"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/babita-kumari-c31b2db26e.jpg","width":160,"height":240,"license":"CC BY 3.0","credit":"Bollywood Hungama","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babita_Kumari_(cropped)_at_the_special_screening_of_%E2%80%98Dangal%E2%80%99.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Babita Kumari","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babita_Kumari","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q67868805","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67868805","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Babita Kumari (cropped) at the special screening of ‘Dangal’.jpg by Bollywood Hungama (CC BY 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babita_Kumari_(cropped)_at_the_special_screening_of_%E2%80%98Dangal%E2%80%99.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Babita Kumari, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Babita Kumari (cropped) at the special screening of ‘Dangal’.jpg — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Babita Kumari\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/babita-kumari. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T15:28:16Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-14","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/babita-kumari","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/babita-kumari","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/babita-kumari?lang=ne"}}