New Delhi: Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat, who is without doubt one of the nation’s prime wrestlers demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual harassment of ladies grapplers, on Sunday stated that not a single Bharatiya Janata Party’s girl parliamentarian had met them ‘to increase help of their struggle for the dignity of ladies’. Speaking to reporters, Phogat, who’s staging a protest together with medal-winning grapplers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar for the final 22 days, additionally stated that from Monday onwards, they may give letters by hand or through e-mail to all girls parliamentarians of the ruling occasion to come back and help them.
“When they talk about the safety of women in the country, then we too are their daughters and they should come out and support us,” Vinesh Phogat stated.
She added that they really feel that ‘their voice and grievances’ haven’t ‘reached them’ but.
“We feel that after they receive the letters they will come and support us,” she stated.
Vinesh additionally requested the individuals gathered at Jantar Mantar to go to their respective district headquarters on May 16 and provides a memorandum in help of the wrestlers.
Meanwhile, the protesting wrestlers termed the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) choice to take cost of all of the actions of the Wrestling Federation of India because the ‘first step’ of their struggle towards WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
The IOA, by its letter on May 12, requested the secretary basic of WFI handy over the official paperwork together with monetary devices to its ad-hoc panel, making it clear the outgoing workplace bearers shall don’t have any position within the working of the federation. The IOA’s three-member ad-hoc committee has made it clear that the method to elect new WFI workplace bearers can be accomplished throughout the 45-day timeframe and that the cost can be handed again to the elected physique.
“This (the dissolution of the current WFI) is the first step in our fight for justice. Our fight has begun in right earnest, it’s a victory for us… And we will continue or fight until we get justice,” Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia stated.
It is notable that the wrestlers have been demanding the arrest of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP MP, who they’ve accused of sexual exploitation of a number of girls grapplers together with a minor.
The Delhi Police has filed two FIRs, together with one below part 10 of the POCSO Act towards Singh, who has denied all the costs.
