Via ANI
HARIDWAR: Protesting wrestlers, accumulated at Uttarakhand’s Haridwar to immerse their medals in river Ganga, as a mark of protest towards WFI leader and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations, on Tuesday made up our minds to halt their plan after farmer chief Naresh Tikait intervened and sought a five-day time from the protesting grapplers.
Tikait took medals from the wrestlers and sought a five-day time from them.
Olympic medalist wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik along side Vinesh Phogat, who’ve accused the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment and are hard his arrest, reached Uttarakhand’s Haridwar to immerse their all medals together with Olympic medals within the river Ganga on Tuesday night time, as a mark in their protest.
A large crowd is provide because the wrestlers have been noticed huddled in combination to immerse their medals which they have got completed after a lot exhausting paintings. Ladies wrestlers have been sitting at the flooring and have been emotional.
Previous, the wrestlers took to Twitter and shared a submit concerning the chain of occasions that experience spread out in fresh days and the way in which government treated the location.
The protesting wrestlers mentioned that they are going to talk over with Haridwar and throw their medals within the Ganga at 6 pm on Tuesday. They mentioned they’ll take a seat on a starvation strike at India Gate after throwing their medals.
Of their submit, the wrestlers mentioned, “You noticed the whole lot that came about on Might 28, how police handled us and the way in which they arrested us. We have been protesting peacefully, our position has been taken away and the next day to come critical circumstances and FIR have been filed towards us. Have the wrestlers dedicated any crime by way of hard justice for the sexual harassment that came about to them? The police and the gadget are treating us like criminals, whilst the oppressor is taking jibe transferring freely. He’s even brazenly speaking about converting the POSCO Act.”
A number of ace grapplers together with Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik had been protesting towards the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh accusing him of sexual harassment and significant his arrest. In addition they went on to query the truth that how the ladies wrestlers needed to conceal for all of the day.
“The day past, lots of our ladies wrestlers have been hiding within the fields. The gadget will have to arrest the oppressor however it’s engaged in breaking and intimidating the sufferer ladies to finish their protest,” the grapplers mentioned. They additional mentioned that those medals are left and not using a that means.
“It’s not lower than demise for us pondering of returning medals however how are we able to reside compromising our self-respect? We don’t want those medals anymore. If we discuss towards exploitation, they get ready to place us in prison,” the wrestlers mentioned.
“We’re going to shed those medals within the Ganga. Our medals which we earned after exhausting paintings are as sacred as River Ganga. Those medals are sacred for all of the nation and the appropriate position to stay the sacred medal may also be holy Ganga and now not our unholy gadget which masquerades us and stands with our oppressor after profiting from us. The medal is our existence, our soul. We can take a seat on starvation strike at India gate until demise,” the wrestlers added.
On Sunday, India’s Olympic medallist wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia along side Vinesh Phogat and Sangeeta Phogat have been detained by way of Delhi Police whilst making an attempt to march to the brand new Parliament construction the place they deliberate to degree an indication.FIR has been filed below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147, 149, 186, 188, 332, 353, Segment 3 of the PDPP Act, mentioned Delhi Police.
HARIDWAR: Protesting wrestlers, accumulated at Uttarakhand’s Haridwar to immerse their medals in river Ganga, as a mark of protest towards WFI leader and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations, on Tuesday made up our minds to halt their plan after farmer chief Naresh Tikait intervened and sought a five-day time from the protesting grapplers.
Tikait took medals from the wrestlers and sought a five-day time from them.
Olympic medalist wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik along side Vinesh Phogat, who’ve accused the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment and are hard his arrest, reached Uttarakhand’s Haridwar to immerse their all medals together with Olympic medals within the river Ganga on Tuesday night time, as a mark in their protest.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
A large crowd is provide because the wrestlers have been noticed huddled in combination to immerse their medals which they have got completed after a lot exhausting paintings. Ladies wrestlers have been sitting at the flooring and have been emotional.
Previous, the wrestlers took to Twitter and shared a submit concerning the chain of occasions that experience spread out in fresh days and the way in which government treated the location.
The protesting wrestlers mentioned that they are going to talk over with Haridwar and throw their medals within the Ganga at 6 pm on Tuesday. They mentioned they’ll take a seat on a starvation strike at India Gate after throwing their medals.
Of their submit, the wrestlers mentioned, “You noticed the whole lot that came about on Might 28, how police handled us and the way in which they arrested us. We have been protesting peacefully, our position has been taken away and the next day to come critical circumstances and FIR have been filed towards us. Have the wrestlers dedicated any crime by way of hard justice for the sexual harassment that came about to them? The police and the gadget are treating us like criminals, whilst the oppressor is taking jibe transferring freely. He’s even brazenly speaking about converting the POSCO Act.”
A number of ace grapplers together with Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik had been protesting towards the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh accusing him of sexual harassment and significant his arrest. In addition they went on to query the truth that how the ladies wrestlers needed to conceal for all of the day.
“The day past, lots of our ladies wrestlers have been hiding within the fields. The gadget will have to arrest the oppressor however it’s engaged in breaking and intimidating the sufferer ladies to finish their protest,” the grapplers mentioned. They additional mentioned that those medals are left and not using a that means.
“It’s not lower than demise for us pondering of returning medals however how are we able to reside compromising our self-respect? We don’t want those medals anymore. If we discuss towards exploitation, they get ready to place us in prison,” the wrestlers mentioned.
“We’re going to shed those medals within the Ganga. Our medals which we earned after exhausting paintings are as sacred as River Ganga. Those medals are sacred for all of the nation and the appropriate position to stay the sacred medal may also be holy Ganga and now not our unholy gadget which masquerades us and stands with our oppressor after profiting from us. The medal is our existence, our soul. We can take a seat on starvation strike at India gate until demise,” the wrestlers added.
On Sunday, India’s Olympic medallist wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia along side Vinesh Phogat and Sangeeta Phogat have been detained by way of Delhi Police whilst making an attempt to march to the brand new Parliament construction the place they deliberate to degree an indication.FIR has been filed below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147, 149, 186, 188, 332, 353, Segment 3 of the PDPP Act, mentioned Delhi Police.