Year in Review: Indian sportspersons who turned politicians in 2019

From Gautam Gambhir to Babita Phogat, many sportspersons started their political innings, but not all received in electoral politics the success they were used to in their respective sports

There comes a times when you retire from your regular employment, but the show must go on. If there was one area whose shining lights took this belief very seriously this year, it was the field of sports. Typically, sportspersons are past their prime sooner than people in other professions. And after retirement, they usually try their hand at not-so-active roles in their own sport, such as coaching and commentating. But the year 2019, incidentally a year of national elections, opened another career path for India’s retiring sportspersons — politics. The year showed many, however, that their record on the