File picture of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha
| Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj
Coming down closely on the aggrieved wrestlers, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha on April 27 mentioned the grapplers protesting on the streets amounts to indiscipline and is tarnishing the nation’s picture.
Decorated wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik are the three central characters within the renewed protests in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment and felony intimidation by the grapplers.
“Wrestlers staging protest on streets amounts to indiscipline. It is tarnishing the image of India,” Usha informed reporters after IOA’s Executive Committee assembly.
The IOA additionally instituted a three-member adhoc panel, together with former shooter Suma Shirur, Wushu Association of India chief Bhupendra Singh Bajwa and headed by a yet-to-be-named retired excessive courtroom decide, to run the affairs of the WFI till a brand new physique is elected.
The IOA and the federal government had managed to placate the wrestlers with assurances to probe their allegations in opposition to Sharan and the WFI after the protest first broke out in January.
