Sports Minister Anurag Thakur additionally urged the wrestlers to be affected person and belief the investigation.
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Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on May 31 requested protesting wrestlers not to take any step that would undermine sports activities, a day after the grapplers threatened to immerse their medals in river Ganga at Haridwar.
Mr. Thakur additionally urged the wrestlers to be affected person and belief the investigation into the allegations in opposition to the Wrestling Federation of India’s former chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
“I urge the wrestlers to be patient till the outcome of the investigation. I also urge them not to take any step that would undermine sports,” the minister stated whereas replying to queries from reporters.
Mr. Thakur’s remarks come a day after the nation’s high wrestlers, together with Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, together with a whole lot of their supporters, reached Har ki Pauri to immerse their medals within the river Ganga however have been persuaded by Khap and farmer leaders not to accomplish that.
The wrestlers are demanding the arrest of Singh who’s accused of sexually harassing a number of ladies grapplers.
