New Delhi: Wrestlers reached Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar to immerse their medals that they earned in national and international games including Olympics.
In the emotional visuals from Haridwar, grapplers were seen hugging their medals to thier chest as they found it hard to let go their trophies.
Meanwhile, Ganga Samiti stood against the wrestlers saying the river is a place for worship and not politics.
#WATCH | Protesting Wrestlers in Haridwar to immerse their medals in river Ganga as a mark of protest against WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations. #WrestlersProtest pic.twitter.com/4kL7VKDLkB
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In a letter posted on the social media, wrestlers announced that they will ‘immerse’ their medals in river Ganga.
They stated that returning the medals feels like dying. However, the letter stated that keeping the medals will feel like compromising with our self respect. “How shall we live like that?” asked the wrstlers.
The wrestlers said we found river Ganga the pure place to put our medals in as we could not find a suitable person to return these medals to. They said that the medals could not be given back to President Draupadi Murmu or Prime Minister Narendra Modi as none of them took stock of what happened on May 28.
On May 28, the grapplers were dragged, manhandled and detained when they tried to march to new Parliament building, where the inauguration ceremony was going on.
“Has women wrestlers committed a crime by asking justice for all the sexual harassment meted out to them?” asked the wrestlers who have accused the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually abusing female coaches and athletes.
