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NEW DELHI: India’s top wrestlers said they had decided to suspend protests on Wednesday after the country’s sports minister promised a swift probe of their federation chief who they accused six months ago of sexually harassing female athletes.
NEW DELHI : India's top wrestlers decided to suspend their protests on Wednesday after the country's sports minister promised a swift probe of their federation chief who has been accused of sexually harassing female athletes.
Concerned that the protesting wrestlers can take the extreme step of immersing their medals into holy river Ganga, members of the 1983 World Cup winning cricket team on Friday urged the elite athletes not to take a hasty decision and hoped their grievances will be heard and resolved. Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, who have been demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Birj Bhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual exploitation of women wrestlers, took their protest to Haridwar on May 30 but did not carry out the threat of immersing their medals into Ganga.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has condemned the manner in which the protesting Indian wrestlers were being treated by Delhi Police over the weekend, terming it "very disturbing" in a strongly-worded statement. The IOC's reaction follows the United World Wrestling's (UWW) criticism of the detention of the grapplers during their protest at Jantar Mantar, in which the sport's world body threatened to suspend the national federation if it fails to hold its election within the stipulated time.
NEW DELHI : India’s sports minister on Wednesday urged wrestling champions who have staged protests accusing their federation chief of sexual harassment to await the outcome of investigations into the allegations before deciding their next course of action.
Amid the long-standing protest by ace Indian wrestlers, who have alleged that their complaints against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh have been largely ignored, the global governing body of the sport - United World Wrestling (UWW) - has released a statement on the issue. In the statement, issued on Tuesday, UWW has urged authorities to carry an impartial probe on the allegations. They have also called for election in the WFI, failing to do which may lead to the national body's suspension.
India's top wrestlers have held off for now from throwing their medals into the country's sacred Ganges River as part of an ongoing protest against sexual harassment.
Some of India's top wrestlers, including Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, along with World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat on Tuesday tweeted that they are going to immerse their medals in river Ganga. They complained that despite allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, no action is being taken against him. The wrestlers even went Haridwar to immerse their medals but later shelved that plan to consign their medals in Ganga after much coaxing from the locals.