Bajrang Punia. (Credit: Twitter)
Sanjay Singh and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anita Sheoran are the 2 candidates within the working for the submit of the WFI president. The elections are scheduled to be held on December 21 throughout the WFI General Body Meeting and the outcomes might be declared on the identical day.
Olympic medal-successful grapplers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, on Monday, met Sports Minister Anurag Thakur to as soon as once more request him to cease anybody associated to former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh from contesting the upcoming polls of the nationwide physique.
The a lot-awaited WFI elections are scheduled to be held on December 21 throughout its General Body Meeting and the outcomes might be declared on the identical day itself.
Bajrang and Sakshi are among the many wrestlers, who spearheaded the protest towards Brij Bhushan for 2 months, on allegations of a number of costs of sexual harassment towards the BJP MP from Kaiserganj, Uttar Pradesh. As per Tokyo Games bronze medallist Bajrang, they withdrew their protest after the federal government assured that nobody associated to Brij Bhushan would contest the polls.
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Two candidates — Brij Bhushan-loyalist Sanjay Singh and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anita Sheoran are within the working for the WFI president’s submit.
“Yes, we met with the sports minister today and reminded him of his promise that no one related to Brij Bhushan should contest the WFI elections,” Bajrang instructed PTI.
“Sanjay Singh is his close associate and he should withdraw from the election race or otherwise we will decide our future course of action soon. We told that to that minister,” mentioned Bajrang.
Bajrang additionally said that they don’t have any points with Sheoran as she is a former wrestler and may be very properly conscious in regards to the plight of the athletes.
“We want some former wrestler to take the charge of WFI, who at least knows what it takes to win medals for the country. Anita ji (Sheoren) is a Commonwealth Games medallist and understands the demands of wrestlers,” he mentioned.
Anita, who’s within the working to grow to be the primary lady president of the WFI, can also be reportedly a witness within the sexual harassment instances levied towards Brij Bhushan.
Brij Bhushan is dealing with a number of costs of sexual harassment and is presently out on bail. He shouldn’t be eligible to contest within the WFI elections as has accomplished 12 years as an workplace-bearer, which is the utmost time period allowed as per the National Sports Code.
He additionally assured that nobody from his household would contest the polls.
Accordingly, Brij Bhushan, who’s the president of the Uttar Pradesh wrestling physique, and his son Karan, who’s a vice chairman in the identical state physique, is not going to compete within the elections.
Brij Bhushan’s son-in-legislation Vishal Singh, president of the Bihar Wrestling Federation, can also be not contesting the elections.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
