Wrestlers protest: Brij Bhushan Singh is dealing with allegations of sexual harassment. (File)
Lucknow:
Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Tuesday responded to the protesting wrestlers, who gathered at Haridwar and threatened to throw their medals within the Ganges as a mark of protest in opposition to him, saying that the costs in opposition to him are already being probed by the Delhi Police.
Mr Singh, who’s dealing with allegations of sexual harassment by feminine wrestlers, added that the choice by the wrestlers to consign their laurels to the waters was purely a stand taken by them.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the six-time BJP MP mentioned, “The matter is beneath investigation by the Delhi Police. If there’s any reality to the costs (levelled in opposition to him by the wrestlers), an arrest will probably be made,” the WFI chief added.
While the wrestlers arrived within the holy metropolis on Tuesday to consign their medals to the Ganges, farmer chief Naresh Tikait talked them out of it.
The wrestlers later issued a five-day ultimatum to the authorities to behave in opposition to the WFI chief.
“Today, they went to Haridwar to immerse their medals within the Ganga. But later, they handed them to Tikait. It’s their stand, what can we do?” he added.
Olympians Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, who’ve been demanding the elimination and arrest of the WFI president over allegations of sexual harassment, reached Haridwar earlier on Tuesday to immerse their medals within the Ganges.
Earlier, the wrestlers took to Twitter to share a publish in regards to the occasions which have unfolded within the latest previous and the best way authorities dealt with the state of affairs.
The protesting wrestlers mentioned they’ll go to Haridwar and throw their medals within the Ganga at 6 pm on Tuesday.
In their publish, the wrestlers mentioned, “You noticed every little thing that occurred on May 28, how police handled us and the best way they arrested us. We had been protesting peacefully, our place has been taken away and the subsequent day severe instances and FIR had been filed in opposition to us. Have the wrestlers dedicated any crime by demanding justice for the sexual harassment that occurred to them? The police and the system are treating us like criminals, whereas the oppressor is taking jibe shifting freely. He is even brazenly speaking about altering the POSCO Act.”
“Yesterday, a lot of our girls wrestlers had been hiding within the fields. The system ought to arrest the oppressor however it’s engaged in breaking and intimidating the sufferer girls to finish their protest,” the grapplers mentioned.
They claimed the medals that they received for the nation do not maintain any which means or significance for them anymore.
“It just isn’t lower than demise for us considering of returning medals however how can we stay compromising our self-respect? We do not want these medals anymore. If we converse in opposition to exploitation, they put together to place us in jail,” the wrestlers mentioned.
“We are going to shed these medals within the Ganga. Our medals which we earned after onerous work are as sacred as River Ganga. These medals are sacred for the complete nation and the appropriate place to maintain the sacred medal will be holy Ganga and never our unholy system which masquerades us and stands with our oppressor after making the most of us. The medal is our life, our soul. We will sit on starvation strike at India gate until demise,” they added of their publish.
On Sunday, Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia together with Vinesh Phogat and Sangeeta Phogat had been detained by Delhi Police whereas trying to march to the brand new Parliament constructing the place they deliberate to stage an indication.
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