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Wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Saturday kept her Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards in the middle of the Kartavya Path in New Delhi as she earlier announced to renounce those awards protesting against the injustice to the top wrestlers of the country. The election of Sanjay Singh as the president of the Wrestling Federation of India triggered protests from the top wrestlers who accused former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually harassing women wrestlers. Sanjay Singh is Brij Bhushan’s close aide and that’s why the wrestlers objected to his election as they would not get justice. The WFI was suspended by the sports ministry for not following the provisions of its own constitution while taking decisions while asking the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to constitute an ad-hoc panel to manage the affairs of the sports body.
After Sanjay Singh’s election, Sakshi Malik announced her retirement from wrestling, Bajrang Punia returned his Padma Shri and now Vineh Phogat returned two awards.
Police stopped Vinesh Phoat from reaching the PM’s office and Phogat kept her awards in the middle of the road.
On Tuesday, Vinesh announced her decision and said such honours have become meaningless as the wrestlers of the country are struggling to get justice.
On Saturday, Bajrang Punia urged the sports ministry to resume wrestling activities as soon as possible as there have been no wrestling events in the last few months. “we have Olympic Games in 7 months but no one seems serious about it while in the last four Olympics, wrestlers brought consecutive medals,” Bajrang Punia posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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