New Delhi: Farmer Leader Naresh Tikait on Tuesday arrived in Haridwar and stopped the wrestlers from immersing their medals in river Ganga – a mark of protest in opposition to WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations. Tikait took the medals from the wrestlers and sought 5 days time to resolve their points. Heart-wrenching visuals from Haridwar confirmed Tikait and different farmer leaders convincing and accumulating the medals from the protesting wrestlers and assuring them of their full help.Â
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#WATCH | Naresh Tikait arrives in Haridwar the place wrestlers have gathered to immerse their medals in river Ganga as a mark of protest in opposition to WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations. He took medals from the wrestlers and sought five-day… pic.twitter.com/tDPHRXJq0T
— ANI (@ANI) May 30, 2023
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Khap Meeting Tomorrow: Tikait
Naresh Tikait additionally made large allegations saying that as an alternative of addressing the wrestlers’ difficulty, the Centre authorities is making an attempt to guard the WFI chief. “Entire Indian govt is saving one man (WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh). There will be a Khap meeting tomorrow,” stated Tikait, who intervened and requested protesting wrestlers to not immerse their medals whereas searching for 5 days’ time.
Will Throw Our Medals In Ganga: Wrestlers
In a brand new twist to the continued wrestlers’ protest within the nationwide capital, India’s star grapplers Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat earlier stated that they are going to throw their medals in River Ganga in Haridwar on Tuesday night. The wrestlers took to Twitter and shared a submit in regards to the chain of occasions which have unfolded in current days and the way in which authorities dealt with the scenario. The protesting wrestlers stated that they are going to go to Haridwar and throw their medals within the Ganga at 6 pm on Tuesday. They stated they are going to sit on a starvation strike at India Gate after throwing their medals.
In their submit, the wrestlers stated, “You saw everything that happened on May 28, how police treated us and the way they arrested us. We were protesting peacefully, our place has been taken away and the next day serious cases and FIR were filed against us. Have the wrestlers committed any crime by demanding justice for the sexual harassment that happened to them? The police and the system are treating us like criminals, while the oppressor is taking jibe moving freely. He is even openly talking about changing the POSCO Act.”
FIR Against Several Wrestlers
Several ace grapplers together with Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik have been protesting in opposition to the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh accusing him of sexual harassment and demanding his arrest. They additionally went on to query the truth that how the ladies wrestlers needed to disguise for your complete day.
“Yesterday, many of our women wrestlers were hiding in the fields. The system should arrest the oppressor but it is engaged in breaking and intimidating the victim women to end their protest,” the grapplers stated. They additional stated that these medals are left with no which means.
“It is not less than death for us thinking of returning medals but how can we live compromising our self-respect? We don’t need these medals anymore. If we speak against exploitation, they prepare to put us in jail,” the wrestlers stated.
“We are going to shed these medals in the Ganga. Our medals which we earned after hard work are as sacred as River Ganga. These medals are sacred for the entire country and the right place to keep the sacred medal can be the holy Ganga and not our unholy system which masquerades us and stands with our oppressor after taking advantage of us. The medal is our life, our soul. We will sit on hunger strike at India gate till death,” the wrestlers added.
Scuffle At Jantar Mantar
On Sunday, India’s Olympic medallist wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia together with Vinesh Phogat and Sangeeta Phogat have been detained by Delhi Police whereas making an attempt to march to the brand new Parliament constructing the place they deliberate to stage an indication.
FIR has been filed underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147, 149, 186, 188, 332, 353, Section 3 of the PDPP Act, stated Delhi Police. “We provided all possible facilities to the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar for the past 38 days. But yesterday they violated the law despite all requests made to them. They were detained and released by the evening,” stated Deputy Commissioner of Police Suman Nalwa.
The Delhi Police additionally eliminated the tents of the protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar. “Yesterday, protesters violated the law despite all requests made to them. That is why, the ongoing sit-in protest has been made to conclude. If the wrestlers give an application for sit-in protest again in future, they will be permitted for the same at a suitable place other than Jantar Mantar,” stated Delhi Police.
On Sunday, the protesting wrestlers making an attempt to march in direction of the brand new Parliament from their protest web site at Jantar Mantar have been stopped and detained by the safety personnel in Delhi. The Delhi Police earlier stated that “unsocial elements” will not be allowed to enter the nationwide capital to make sure clean conduct of the inauguration ceremony of the brand new Parliament constructing.
The wrestlers had introduced that they deliberate to carry a ladies’s Maha Panchayat in entrance of the brand new Parliament as a part of their protest in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan who has been accused of sexually harassing ladies wrestlers. Seven ladies wrestlers have filed a police criticism in opposition to him.Â
