Amid the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar, the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party MP and president of the Wrestling Federation of India Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has come ahead in his personal defence. He stated that the fees towards him are levelled via just a small team of wrestlers related to a Congress chief, and the vast majority of the wrestlers within the nation strengthen him. He additionally faulted the wrestlers protesting towards him for no longer going to the police and keeping protests at Jantar Mantar in Delhi as a substitute.
“90% of the athletes & guardians of Haryana consider the Wrestling Federation of India. A couple of households & the women who’ve levelled allegations belonged to the similar Mahadev Wrestling Academy. The shopper of the academy is Deepender Singh Hooda,” Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said whilst chatting with the media. Deepender Singh Hooda is a Congress chief and lately a member of Rajya Sabha.
“They’re additionally attacking Top Minister Narendra Modi. The people talking towards him and the ones provide round are railway staff. It will have to be investigated,” he remarked.
He requested the wrestlers to means the police and the courtroom and confident that he’ll recognize the verdict of the courtroom. “You don’t get justice from Jantar Mantar. If you need justice, it’s a must to move to the police, courtroom. They by no means did that till now. All they did was once hurl abuses. We will be able to settle for regardless of the courtroom comes to a decision,” the WFI president stated.
“Akhilesh Yadav is aware of the reality. We all know every different since early life. 80% of the wrestlers in Uttar Pradesh belong to households with Samajwadi Birthday party ideology. They name me ‘Netaji’. They know the way their Netaji is,” he answered when wondered about SP leader Akhilesh Yadav’s absence from Jantar Mantar even if a number of opposition leaders together with Priyanka Vadra Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal visited there.
#WATCH | WFI leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh says, “90% of the athletes & guardians of Haryana consider the Wrestling Federation of India. A couple of households & the women who’ve levelled allegations belonged to the similar ‘akhada’…The shopper of that ‘akhada’ is Deepender Hooda.”… %.twitter.com/NqzrLvghqi
— ANI (@ANI) April 30, 2023
In a contemporary interview, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh stated, “I’m content material with the verdict of the honourable courtroom. The wrestlers were elevating their calls for for such a lot of days they usually have been protesting for a similar. They went to the courtroom and the courtroom additionally took cognizance. The Ideally suited Court docket has ordered that an FIR will have to be registered and the topic be investigated. I’m utterly content material with the verdict. I can cooperate within the investigation anywhere vital.”
“Their call for adjustments now and again. You will have to imagine the agitation proper from the start. At the moment they demanded that the WFI president will have to renounce. After that, they introduced up the problem of sexual harassment. After that, they demanded that the federal government will have to behavior an inquiry,” he endured.
The WFI supremo additional commented, “The federal government shaped two committees. the inquiry was once finished. They didn’t watch for the document of the probe via the committees and began a sit-in protest on another factor. Then they reached the Ideally suited Court docket. If they’re going to be glad simply with my resignation, I can ship it to you, and display the resignation to them.”
“Despite the fact that I renounce, they’re going to say that he’s no longer favouring anyone via resigning, as anyhow his time period was once already over. You inform them to start out their follow and prevent this protest, I ship my resignation to you. In case you are asking me to renounce, I will renounce, however no longer as a prison,” he emphasized.
Anti-Modi slogans together with “Modi Teri Kabar Khudegi, Aaj Nahi To Kal Khudegi” (Modi you’ll be buried, the next day to come if no longer these days) have been not too long ago heard on the protesting match within the presence of a number of wrestlers together with Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Sangeeta Phogat.
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A number of most sensible wrestlers together with Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia, and Vinesh Phogat, returned to Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on April 23 after their preliminary protest in January, to show towards WFI head Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra and previous Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev have come ahead in strengthen of the wrestlers, while, Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) president and previous observe and box athlete, PT Usha slammed them. “Indian Olympic Affiliation is having a committee for sexual harassment, as a substitute of going to the streets they (protesting wrestlers) can have come to us previous however they didn’t come to IOA. It isn’t just right for sports activities no longer just for wrestlers. They will have to even have some self-discipline,” she voiced.
Yogeshwar Dutt, a former wrestler who served on a status committee that first appeared into the allegations asserted that with out a criticism, police can not take any motion. He added that the wrestlers wish to have introduced up the problem quicker.
#WATCH | Yogeshwar Dutt, Olympic medallist wrestler & a member of the committee that probed the allegations of sexual harassment of wrestlers says, “…Police will take motion most effective while you document it to them. They would possibly not do it if one sits at house. Wrestlers will have to have completed it 3… %.twitter.com/oYTjEemkI5
— ANI (@ANI) April 30, 2023
The Delhi Police filed two FIR on Friday night time when it comes to the allegations that named the six-time member of parliament as an perpetrator, hours after the Ideally suited Court docket heard the topic.
The IOA had established a seven-person committee headed via M C Mary Kom to probe the accusations earlier than the wrestlers made the verdict to withdraw their protest. Vinod Tomar, the Wrestling Federation’s Further Secretary, had additionally been suspended via the Union Sports activities Ministry.