The agitating wrestlers have reached Haridwar’s Har Ki Pauri to throw away their medals within the Ganga river, on Tuesday, in protest in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh who’s accused of sexually harassing girls grapplers.
The wrestlers, who introduced they may sit on a starvation strike “till dying” on the India Gate, have mentioned they determined to immerse the medals within the river as they really feel that these haven’t any that means any extra.
“These medals are our life and soul. We’re going to throw them within the Ganges. After that there isn’t a level of dwelling, so we’ll sit on a starvation strike till dying at India Gate,” Sakshi Malik had mentioned in a press release in Hindi.
“Now we have gained these medals with the identical purity because the holy Ganga. These medals are holy for all the nation and there cannot be a greater place to maintain them than within the holy Ganga relatively than it performing as a masks for the unholy system which is siding with the wrongdoer,” Sakshi mentioned.
She wished President Draupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi ought to have addressed this concern.
India’s prime wrestlers, Malik, Vinesh Phogat, and Bajrang Punia, flanked by lots of of supporters are at Haridwar on the event of Ganga Dussera, a day when folks collect on the website to supply prayers.
Visuals from the positioning confirmed the wrestlers sobbing, hugging one another, and clutching their medals, able to throw them within the river.
The wrestlers stood for about 20 minutes in silence after reaching Har ki Pauri. They then sat on the banks of the river holding their citations and looking out emotionally distressed.
In the meantime, veteran cricketer Anil Kumble prolonged assist to protesting wrestlers, saying, “Dismayed to listen to about what transpired on the twenty eighth of Might with our wrestlers being manhandled. Something could be resolved by correct dialogue. Hoping for a decision on the earliest”
The wrestlers had been detained by Delhi Police and faraway from their Jantar Mantar protest website on Might 28.