India’s 1983 ICC World Cup winnings workforce has thrown their support for the continuing wrestlers’ protest and has urged them to not take any hasty selections. Members of the World Cup-winning workforce, together with captain Kapil Dev and legendary batter Sunil Gavaskar, launched an announcement on Friday, May 2, to indicate concern concerning the therapy of the wrestlers.
Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia, and Vinesh Phogat are main the wrestlers’ protest, who’re demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) head Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The protesters threatened to immerse their successful medals into Ganga as they took the protest to Haridwar on May 30.
Delhi Police detained the wrestlers for violation of legislation and order for marching in the direction of the brand new Parliament constructing with out permission on May 28. Police cleared the protest website and made it clear that the wrestlers is not going to be allowed again at Jantar Mantar. The visuals of police manhandling the protesters shocked many and now the World Cup-winning Indian cricket workforce has come out to indicate their concern.
“We are distressed and disturbed at the unseemly visuals of our champion wrestlers being manhandled. We are also most concerned that they are thinking of dumping their hard earned medals into river Ganga,” an announcement launched to PTI by the 1983 World Cup successful workforce learn.
“Those medals have involved years of effort, sacrifice, determination, and grit and are not only their own but the nation’s pride and joy. We urge them not to take any hasty decision in this matter and also fervently hope that their grievances are heard and resolved quickly. Let the law of the land prevail,” the assertion learn additional.
India gained their first-ever ICC World Cup towards all the percentages below the management of Kapil Dev in 1983. The Indian workforce beat the mighty West Indies at London’s Lord’s to kick off India’s dominance in world cricket. The legendary batter Sunil Gavaskar and the present BCCI president Roger Binny had been half of the Indian workforce that beat the Caribbean facet in the ultimate on June 25, 1983.