Wrestlers’ Protest: Olympian Sakshee Malikkh, who’s a part of the wrestlers’ protest in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, on Thursday slammed Indian Olympic Association chief PT Usha saying she is not listening to different women athletes even after being a girl athlete.
“Being a woman athlete, she (PT Usha) isn’t listening to other women athletes. Where’s indiscipline here, we are sitting here peacefully… She herself cried in front of the media regarding her academy,” mentioned Sakshee Malikkh.
“Sports Minister sat with athletes only for a few minutes…at times we were intimidated in the meeting…,” mentioned Bajrang Punia.
Speaking within the matter, IOA President, PT Usha mentioned, “Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is having a committee for sexual harassment, instead of going to the streets they (protesting wrestlers) could have come to us earlier but they didn’t come to IOA. It isn’t good for Sports not only for wrestlers, they should also have some discipline.”
Union Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned, “We heard wrestlers for 12 hours & formed a committee, we also want an impartial probe, there were 14 meetings that were conducted. Everybody was given an opportunity to keep their point of view in front of an oversight committee. FIR can be registered at any police station.”
“The major findings of the committee were impartial elections, till then, an ad-hoc committee must be formed and an internal complaint committee must be formed,” Anurag Thakur added.
