Will throw medals into Ganga at 6pm: Wrestlers

May 30, 2023 13:12

"We will throw our medals in river Ganga in Haridwar today at 6pm," say the wrestlers protesting against WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations.

Several wrestlers, including Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, marching towards the new Parliament building, were detained by Delhi police on Sunday, in pictures that should have shamed a government. Launching a crackdown on the protesters, the police removed the tents from Jantar Mantar and cleared the protest site.

The Delhi Police yesterday aid the protesters broke the law despite repeated requests, which is why their protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, Delhi's designated protest site, was stopped. The sit-in protest by the elite grapplers was going on smoothly so far, they said. The wrestlers have refuted the charge that they were rioting, or indulged in any violence.

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