Wrestlers proetst: Per week after they resumed their stir within the nationwide capital, wrestlers on Sunday dismissed allegations that they have been vying to take management over the Wrestling Federation of India whilst its chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh accused Congress chief Deepender Hooda and wrestler Bajrang Punia of hatching a conspiracy towards him. The agitating gamers claimed Brij Bhushan’s household has been operating the federation.
Following a Supreme Court course, the Delhi Police on Sunday supplied security to the feminine wrestlers together with a minor who filed complaints of sexual harassment towards Singh and the complainants have been requested to file their statements quickly in order that additional investigation within the case could be carried out, officers stated.
Brij Bhushan praises Akhilesh
Booked for alleged sexual exploitation of girls wrestlers, Singh, who has vowed to struggle the costs, alleged that the opposition events have been “tutoring” the gamers and in addition praised former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav for not associating himself with the protest, saying the Samajwadi Party chief was “standing with the truth”.
The protesting wrestlers, who first levelled allegations of sexual harassment towards Singh in January, had resumed their sit-in final Sunday to demand that the findings of the Centre-appointed panel that probed the costs be made public.
Nepotism
The Delhi Police had on Fridays filed two FIRs, together with one beneath the POCSO Act, towards the BJP MP, who has accomplished 12 years as WFI President and is ineligible to turn out to be an workplace bearer. The WFI president claimed that the wrestlers need to take over the WFI and that just one household, the Phogats, is behind the protest. Wrestler Bajrang Punia countered the cost.
“If you have to be in WFI, then you have to be a member of a state association. We don’t want control of WFI.” “His son is the president of the UP Association, and the secretary is his son’s brother-in-law. His son-in-law is also a member of a state association. He is accusing us of ‘parivaarwad’ (nepotism) while it is happening in his case,” he claimed.
Brij Bhusan targets Punia
However, talking to reporters on Sunday at his residence in Bishnoharpur in Uttar Pradesh, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh focused Punia. “This complete conspiracy was hatched by Congress chief Deepender Hooda and wrestler Bajrang Punia. We have an audio to show this that will likely be handed over to the Delhi Police when the time comes,” he claimed.
During an interplay with media at the protest web site at Jantar Mantar, the wrestlers asserted that they have been ready for an extended struggle. To a question about their preparations being affected for the Asia Games later this 12 months, Punia stated, “We train whenever we get time… but getting justice for India’s daughters will be a bigger medal for me”.
“We have full faith in the Supreme Court… we are ready for the long haul,” he stated.
Asked if they are going to finish their protest if Singh is arrested, he stated, “If he is arrested, we will discuss it with our Khap leaders.. others who are with us and act according to what is decided by them on the agitation.”
The wrestlers additionally urged the media not to give Singh a platform to converse until he’s cleared by the courts.
Media is supporting Bhushan: Punia
“The media is supporting Brij Bhushan more than the players. You see his criminal records. Does any player sitting here or players from other sports have a criminal record?” Punia advised reporters.
“The players win medals for the country, and he is questioning the medal winners. How many people become MPs in this country, and how many people win Olympic medals. To date, there are hardly 40 Olympic medallists, and thousands have become MPs,” he stated.
Double World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat stated Singh’s cost that they’re concerned in politics is baseless. “We are not involved in any politics. We speak straight from the heart and it connects, and that is why so many people are sitting here in our support.” “I ask how can you give such a criminal a platform? Ask yourself…. That man is still saying things with a smile on his face. His ego is bigger than the Ravana (in epic Ramayana),” she stated
“If he comes out clean in Supreme Courts order, you guys can garland him…. He has exploited women athletes, and he is being felicitated. I request that you do not give him that platform,” she stated.
The wrestlers have complained of non-cooperation from authorities whom they’ve accused of slicing energy and water provide throughout the night time.
Several political events got here in suppport
Various political events, together with the Congress, the Left, the Trinamool Congress and AAP, have lent their help to the protesting wrestlers. Indian National Lok Dal chief Abhay Chautala and JD(U) chief KC Tyagi met the protesters on Sunday. Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad additionally joined the wrestlers at the protest web site.
A day after Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra together with Deepender Hooda met the wrestlers, her husband and businessman Robert Vadra additionally reached the protest web site at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
“I am supporting the athletes. The entire family is with them. Till they get justice, we will definitely support them,” Robert Vadra.
Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, who’s representing the wrestlers within the Supreme Court, stated they’re going through the predicament of a defiant accused and “no arrests”, and puzzled whether or not there’s a “pliant investigation” into the matter.
In a tweet, he stated: “Protesting Wrestlers Predicament: A minor, 6 others traumatised, a defiant accused, a silent PMO, no arrests. A pliant investigation?” The WFI chief, nevertheless, alleged that the gamers weren’t talking their thoughts and have been being tutored by political events. “This fight is no longer in the hands of players. Political parties have entered… All these players have become toys of the Congress and other opposition parties. Their motive is political, not my resignation,” he stated, including that he’s but to obtain a duplicate of the FIR registered towards him.
“If they (protesters) will go back (to their home) and sleep peacefully after my resignation, I am ready to resign,” he stated.
Talking to PTI, the WFI president stated on Sunday, “I want to thank the leader of Samajwadi party, Akhilesh Yadav, (for not siding with the protesting wrestlers). I know him since his childhood. I am elder to him. Though there are political differences between us, Akhilesh knows the truth”.
BJP chief has different points
The BJP MP from Kaiserganj additionally claimed that gamers related to railways have been sitting at the protest web site in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, and puzzled why the railway board was not stopping them.
“It is their right to protest, but can a player associated with the railways sit on a protest like this where objectionable slogans are being raised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,” he stated.
In response to a query, the BJP MP stated his occasion shouldn’t be dragged into the problem. “Don’t drag the party (BJP) into this episode. These allegations are levelled against me as the president of the Wrestling Federation of India, not as a BJP MP. I have to prove myself innocent…. So don’t take this fight on the BJP. If the party asks me to resign, I will do so immediately,” he stated.
Asked about Priyanka Gandhi’s participation within the protest, Singh claimed, “She does not know the facts. Deepender Hooda, the architect of this conspiracy, brought her to the protest site. “The day Priyanka comes to know the reality, or the day report of the investigation will likely be out, she’s going to realise that she mustn’t have gone to the protest web site.”
The protesting wrestlers had on Saturday warned towards utilizing their platform for political positive aspects claiming few folks have been making an attempt to take their struggle for justice to a unique course. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary, former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik, Delhi authorities ministers Atishi Singh and Saurbah Bhardwaj have visited the protest web site to prolong their help to the athletes in the previous few days.
(With inputs from PTI)
