New Delhi: India’s best wrestlers, together with Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, got here to Jantar Mantar with a brand new grievance on Sunday, months after accusing the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and different trainers of sexually exploiting feminine wrestlers. The highest wrestlers requested that the Centre make public the outcomes of the oversight panel that investigated sexual harassment claims towards WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of the BJP.
The wrestlers addressed the issue first in January, however Singh dismissed their efforts to hunt accountability as a publicity gimmick, claiming that “they cannot win medals anymore….their careers are over therefore…”
Who’s BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh?
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the BJP MP from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh, has been the president of WFI since 2011. He has served as a Member of Parliament six instances, representing the constituencies of Gonda, Kaiserganj, and Balrampur. He was a wrestler in his teenagers earlier than becoming a member of scholar politics within the Eighties. Through the Ram Mandir agitation in Ayodhya, his fiery ‘Hindutva picture’ catapulted him to recognition.
Singh ran for the tenth Lok Sabha for the primary time in 1991. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha 5 instances: in 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019. Throughout his transient time with the Samajwadi Occasion, he gained the Kaiserganj seat within the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. He joined the BJP previous to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014 and 2019. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was accused within the Babri demolition case. The court docket later acquitted him. His title was featured on the checklist of 40 leaders named within the accusation, which included senior BJP chief LK Advani, who was acquitted in 2020.
Singh, who is understood for his fiery speech, has dominated the federation for practically a decade. He had beforehand vowed to show Raj Thackeray a lesson if he entered Ayodhya, at a time when Thackeray’s MNS was changing into nearer to the BJP.
In December 2021, a video of him publicly slapping an athlete at Ranchi went common on social media, and he was unapologetic about it. Through the nationwide championships in Noida that very same yr, he suspended a Railways coach for being “too animated” on the sidelines.
In August of final yr, he unexpectedly halted the trials to decide on India’s consultant within the 59 kg division for the World Wrestling Championship 54 seconds after they started. His reasoning was that the occasion’s essential guests, a gaggle of Ayodhya seers, weren’t requested to grant blessings earlier than it started.
Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) President PT Usha response to ongoing wrestlers’ Protest
Coming down closely on the aggrieved wrestlers, Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) President PT Usha on Thursday stated the wrestlers’ protest on the streets is “tarnishing” India’s picture. “Wrestlers staging protest on streets quantities to indiscipline. It’s tarnishing the picture of India,” Usha informed reporters following the IOA’s Govt Committee assembly.
