Wrestler Sakshi Malik addresses the media. File.
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Two days after the Delhi Police forcibly eliminated the wrestlers and cleared their protest web site at Jantar Mantar, wrestler Sakshi Malik has introduced that the wrestlers will now sit on a “fast unto death at India Gate”. Malik additionally stated that the protestors will be consigning their medals to the river Ganga. The medals will be immersed at 6 p.m. today at Haridwar.
On Sunday, India’s prime wrestlers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, who have been dwelling in makeshift tents at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar for almost 35 days to protest in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh who’s accused of sexual harassment, have been detained by safety personnel as they tried to march to the brand new Parliament constructing throughout its inauguration.
Citing Sunday’s motion, Malik wrote in a put up on Twitter, “Have women 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 cracking down on us in open meetings…He is even openly talking about changing the POCSO Act. We women wrestlers are feeling that we have nothing left in this country.”
“We are remembering those moments when we won medals in Olympics, World Championships. Now we are questioning why we even won those in the first place. Did we win so that the system behaves badly with us? Drag us and then make us the culprits,” Malik added.
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Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia together with different protesters have been booked for rioting and obstructing public servant in discharge of responsibility on May 28 after a scuffle with safety personnel who tried to cease them from marching to the new Parliament constructing because it was being inaugurated. Soon after, the Delhi Police cleared the location of their over-month-long sit-in at Jantar Mantar and stated they might not be allowed to return there.
On Monday, Sakshi Malik stated that the wrestlers and organisers had regrouped and held conferences all through to work on the long run technique
“We will sit on fast unto death at India Gate,” Malik stated on Twitter today. “India Gate is the place of our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country. We are not as righteous as our martyrs, but while playing at the international level, our feelings were also like those soldiers,” she added.
‘We don’t want these medals anymore’
Malik additionally addressed the medals received through the years by wrestlers who are actually sitting in protest in opposition to WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, saying that the medals adorning their necks had no which means now.
“The question came as to whom to return [the medals to],” Malik stated.
In her put up Malik got here down closely on President Droupadi Murmu in addition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She went on to say that the wrestlers didn’t really feel snug returning the medals to Ms. Murmu because the President “who herself is a woman… just kept watching, sitting just two kilometres away from us, but did not say anything.”
Referring to the Prime Minister, Malik stated that Mr. Modi had as soon as referred to as them “daughters of his house.” However, the wrestlers have been in opposition to returning the medals to him, “because even once he did not take care of the daughters of his house. Rather, our tyrant was invited to the inauguration of the new Parliament and he was posing for photos in bright white clothes. Its whiteness was stinging us. As if you are saying that I am the system.”
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“Where is our place in this shining system, where is the place of daughters of India? Have we become mere slogans or just an agenda to come to power? We don’t need these medals anymore because by wearing them, this system only does its propaganda… and then exploits us. If we speak against that exploitation, then he prepares to put us in jail,” she added.
Malik stated that the medals would be consigned to the river Ganga at 6 p.m. today in Haridwar. “We are going to shed these medals in the Ganga, because she is the mother Ganga. These medals are sacred for the whole country and the right place to keep the sacred medal can be holy Mother Ganga and not our unholy system which stands with our oppressor after taking advantage of us.”
