Last Updated: April 27, 2023, 18:48 IST
Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat (centre), Sakshi Malik (left) and Sangita Phogat throughout their protest at Jantar Mantar. (PTI Photo)
IOA president PT Usha has criticised prime India wrestlers for taking to the streets
Coming down closely on the aggrieved wrestlers, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha on Thursday mentioned the grapplers protesting on the streets quantities to indiscipline and is tarnishing the nation’s picture.
Decorated wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi malik are the three central characters within the renewed protests towards Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment and legal intimidation by the grapplers.
“Wrestlers staging protest on streets quantities to indiscipline. It is tarnishing the picture of India,” Usha told reporters after IOA’s Executive Committee meeting.
The IOA also instituted a three-member ad-hoc panel, including former shooter Suma Shirur, Wushu Association of India chief Bhupendra Singh Bajwa and headed by a yet-to-be-named retired high court judge, to run the affairs of the WFI until a new body is elected.
The IOA and the government had managed to placate the wrestlers with assurances to probe their allegations against Sharan and the WFI after the protest first broke out in January.
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