IMAGE: Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Photograph: Arun Sharma/PTI Photo
The nation’s high wrestlers, who had been detained by Delhi Police and faraway from their Jantar Mantar protest web site, on Tuesday stated they will throw their heard-earned medals into river Ganges and sit on a hunger strike “till loss of life” on the India Gate.
Sakshi Malik, a bronze medallist on the 2026 Olympics, stated in an announcement on her Twitter deal with that the wrestlers will go to Haridwar on Tuesday to immerse the medals into the holy river at 6 pm.
“These medals are our life and soul. We are going to throw them within the Ganges. After that there isn’t any level of dwelling, so we will sit on a hunger strike till loss of life at India Gate,” she stated within the assertion written in Hindi. The similar assertion was additionally shared by her compatriot Vinesh Phogat.
Tuesday occurs to be Ganga Dussera in Haridwar and probably a day when lot of individuals will be there to supply prayers.
On Sunday, Delhi police detained Malik together with World Championships bronze winner Vinesh Phogat and one other Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia and later filed FIRs towards them for violation of regulation and order, as dramatic scenes unfolded on the protest web site at Jantar Mantar.
Unprecedented scenes of police dragging the Olympic and world championships medal-winning gamers had been witnessed when the wrestlers and their supporters breached the safety cordon forward of their march in the direction of the brand new Parliament constructing for the deliberate ladies’s ‘Mahapanchayat’.
The wrestlers didn’t have permission to maneuver in the direction of the brand new Parliament constructing, hours after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and after they had been stopped by police, an unpleasant scuffle broke out.
The protesting wrestlers and their supporters had been taken to totally different areas within the nationwide capital and later launched.
After the wrestlers had been pushed into buses, the cops cleared the protest web site by eradicating the cots, mattresses, coolers, followers and the tarpaulin ceiling together with different belongings of the grapplers.
The Delhi Police stated it will not enable the wrestlers again into the protest web site.
