New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Clyde Crasto on Monday hit out at Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar for being silent on the protesting wrestlers regardless of each having acted in sports activities movies. Delhi Police detained ace grapplers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia for violation of regulation and order after they breached the safety cordon whereas making an attempt to maneuver in the direction of the brand new Parliament constructing for a deliberate ladies’s ‘Mahapanchayat’ on Sunday.
“Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar tweeted and spoke about the inauguration of the new Parliament building. Both acted in films based on sports and earned fame and fortune. What is stopping them from tweeting and showing support to our wrestlers who are fighting for justice? What or who are they afraid of?” Clyde Crasto requested.
.@iamsrk and @akshaykumar tweeted and spoke concerning the New Parliament constructing.
Both acted in movies primarily based on sports activities and earned fame and fortune.
What is stopping them from tweeting and displaying help to our wrestlers who’re combating for justice?
What or who’re they afraid of ?
— Clyde Crasto – क्लाईड क्रास्टो (@Clyde_Crasto) May 28, 2023
He additionally slammed Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani and requested if it isn’t her ‘obligation’ to guard them.
“Ms Smriti Irani, these are our women wrestlers and see how they are being manhandled. You are India’s woman and child development minister, is it not your duty to protect them and solve their problems. Why do we hear and see you speak only on issues concerning Rahul Gandhi,” he mentioned.
Ms.@smritiirani, these are our ladies wrestlers and see how they’re being manhandled.
You are India’s lady and baby improvement minister, is it not your obligation to guard them and clear up their issues.
Why will we hear and see you converse solely on points regarding @RahulGandhi ? pic.twitter.com/7a8yxmOrYr
— Clyde Crasto – क्लाईड क्रास्टो (@Clyde_Crasto) May 28, 2023
India’s prime wrestlers resumed their agitation towards former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on April 23, demanding his arrest for alleged sexual harassment of a number of ladies grapplers, together with a minor.
As a part of their battle towards Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, the protesting wrestlers had introduced a ladies’s Mahapanchayat close to the brand new Parliament constructing on Sunday, the day of its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They, nevertheless, did not get permission from the Delhi Police for his or her ‘Mahapanchayat’.
However, chaotic scenes had been witnessed on the dharna website at Jantar Mantar as protesters and police personnel shoved and pushed one another when the Phogat sisters, Sakshi Malik and others tried to breach the barricades.
‘Painful’: Sharad Pawar after Delhi Police detains protesting wrestlers
NCP president Sharad Pawar additionally known as the Delhi Police’s motion towards protesting wrestlers as ‘painful’.
‘I strongly condemn the reckless behaviour of Delhi Police in the direction of our athletes who’re the satisfaction of our nation. Our democratic values and ethos has been ashamed at the moment with this act of brutality,’ Pawar tweeted.
Pawar, notably, is the president of the Maharashtra Amateur Wrestling Association, which is affiliated with the Wrestling Federation of India.
Wrestlers booked after scuffle as cops thwart protest close to new Parliament constructing
Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia together with different protesters had been booked for rioting and obstructing public servant in discharge of obligation on Sunday after a scuffle with safety personnel who tried to cease them from marching to the brand new Parliament constructing because it was being inaugurated.
“The FIR has been registered at Parliament Street police station under New Delhi district against the organisers of the protest, including wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sangeeta Phogat, and others who were part of the scuffle that took place at Jantar Mantar today with the police,” a senior police officer mentioned.
The FIR has been registered underneath sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public capabilities), 353 (assault or legal drive to discourage public servant from discharge of his obligation) and 332 (voluntarily inflicting damage to discourage public servant from his obligation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the officer mentioned.
Sections 352 (assault or legal drive in any other case than on grave provocation), 147 (rioting) and 149 (illegal meeting) of the IPC and Section 3 (mischief inflicting harm to public property) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act have additionally been invoked, he mentioned.
Soon after, the Delhi Police additionally cleared the positioning of their over-month-long sit-in at Jantar Mantar and mentioned they won’t be allowed to return there.
‘Our motion shouldn’t be over’: Wrestlers to proceed protest towards WFI chief
After the scuffle, Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik vowed to proceed their sit-in at Jantar Mantar.
“Our movement is not over… We will start our satyagraha at Jantar Mantar. In this country, there will be no dictatorship but there will be satyagraha held by women wrestlers,” she mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
हमारा आंदोलन खत्म नहीं हुआ है.
पुलिस हिरासत से छूटकर हम वापस जंतर मंतर पर अपना सत्याग्रह शुरू करेंगे
इस देश में अब तानाशाही नहीं, बल्कि महिला पहलवानों का सत्याग्रह चलेगा.
— Sakshee Malikkh (@SakshiMalik) May 28, 2023
कभी सोचा नहीं था कुश्ती की रिंग में लड़ते लड़ते एक दिन इंसाफ़ के लिए ऐसे सड़कों पर भी लड़ना पड़ेगा…. देश की बेटियाँ बहुत मज़बूत हैं, जब विदेश में मेडल जीत सकती हैं तो अपने देश में इंसाफ़ की लड़ाई भी जीतके ही मानेंगी। #WrestlerProtest pic.twitter.com/eTHzERBUwb
— Sakshee Malikkh (@SakshiMalik) May 28, 2023
Vinesh Phogat additionally mentioned whereas it took the Delhi Police seven days to register an FIR towards WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, it did not even take seven hours to e-book those that had been protesting ‘peacefully’.
