New Delhi:
A day after Sakshee Mallikh introduced that she was quitting the game to protest the election of a detailed aide of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh because the president of the Wrestling Federation of India, one other high wrestler, Bajrang Punia, mentioned on Friday that he has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and might be returning his Padma Shri to him.
Mr Punia was one of many wrestlers who had protested in opposition to Brij Bhushan, a BJP MP and former chief of the wrestling physique, who was accused of sexual harassment by at the very least 12 ladies wrestlers.
After making an announcement on X, the Olympic medal-winning wrestler reached the residence of the Prime Minister at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, on Friday night and saved the Padma Shri medallion on a footpath there.
‘Spent Entire Night time Crying’
Sanjay Singh, a detailed aide of Brij Bhushan, received the election to the wrestling federation by a landslide, on Thurday defeating Commonwealth Video games gold medallist Anita Sheoran, who was backed by the protesting wrestlers. Mr Singh acquired 40 votes in opposition to solely 7 for Ms Sheoran.
In an emotional letter to PM Modi, Mr Punia pointed to Brij Bhushan’s comment after the election outcomes on Thursday, when he had mentioned, “dabdaba tha, dabdaba rahega” (our dominance will proceed). The Olympian mentioned it was this psychological strain that compelled Ms Mallikh to give up the game and that the wrestlers concerned within the protest spent the entire evening crying.
“I could not perceive the place to go, what to do and how you can dwell. The federal government and the individuals gave me a lot respect. Ought to I proceed to suffocate beneath the burden of this respect? Within the 12 months 2019, I used to be awarded the Padma Shri. I used to be additionally honoured with the Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award. I used to be very comfortable once I obtained these honours. It appeared that life had been profitable. However, right this moment, I’m a lot unhappier than I used to be comfortable on the time, and these honours are suffocating me,” Mr Punia wrote in Hindi.
“There is just one purpose for this: It was wrestling that acquired me these honours and feminine wrestlers at the moment are having to give up that very sport for his or her security,” he added.
‘Ladies Making India Proud’
The wrestler mentioned sport has made an enormous distinction to the lives of women and that nobody might have imagined girls and boys taking part in collectively within the villages. He mentioned ladies are making India proud in sports activities arenas on the worldwide stage and asserted that this had solely been attainable due to the braveness of the primary technology of sportswomen.
“However even the shadow of those that have dominated or will proceed to dominate scares ladies wrestlers, and now they’ve utterly taken over once more. The picture of them with garlands round their necks will need to have reached you,” Mr Punia wrote.
“The daughters who have been to grow to be the model ambassadors of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ have been put in such a state of affairs that they needed to step again from their sport. We ‘respectable’ wrestlers couldn’t do something. I won’t be able to dwell my life as ‘respectable’ after feminine wrestlers have been insulted. Such a life can be suffocating. That is why I’m returning this ‘honour’ to you,” the letter mentioned.
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