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Wrestlers Protest: Haryana BJP MP comes out in support, says ‘forcing them to throw away medals…’

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Brijendra Singh Wednesday came out in support of wrestlers demanding arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual assault charges. Brijendra Singh who is a BJP MP from Haryana’s Hisar expressed pain over the wrestlers’ resolution to immerse their medals in the river […]

Wrestlers Protest

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Brijendra Singh Wednesday came out in support of wrestlers demanding arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual assault charges.

Brijendra Singh who is a BJP MP from Haryana’s Hisar expressed pain over the wrestlers’ resolution to immerse their medals in the river Ganga.

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“I feel the pain and helplessness of our wrestlers forcing them to the brink of throwing away their lifetime of hardwork- the medals from Olympics, CWGs, Asian Games in the holy Ganga. Absolutely heartbreaking,” wrote the BJP MP in a tweet.

On Tuesday, ace wrestlers including Vinesh Phogat, Sakshee Malikkh along with other wrestlers reached Har ki Pauri in Haridwar to immerse their medals in the river Ganga as a show of protest against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. However, they returned without doing so after farmer leader Naresh Tikait sought a period of 5-days from the grapplers and kept the medals.

‘Boxing legend Muhammad Ali set a precedent, immersed Olympic medal to end racial discrimination’: Vijender Singh

Meanwhile, boxer and Congress leader Vijendra Singh referred to an incident with famous boxer Muhhamad Ali who threw his medals in a river in US following humiliation of his medal.

Ali went to a restaurant there when he was insulted and denied entry inside due to his ‘black’ colour. The boxer told the staff that he was a Olympic Gold medalist after which, the latter threw his medal away and said many like come here.

Due to the humiliation, Ali threw his medal in a river that followed a revolution in US as people there supported him.

The Congress leader said meanwhile in India, “when our sisters went to immerse their medals in Ganga, they were asked about their religion followed by a question over their caste.”

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Pranjal Gupta


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