‘Ready for narco test if…’: WFI chief challenges Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia

New Delhi: Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment by a section of wrestlers, on Sunday said he is ready to undergo a narco test provided wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia also undergo it. Take it

In a Facebook post in Hindi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Singh said, “I am ready to undergo narco test, polygraph test or lie detector test, but my condition is that Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia should also undergo them.” Take it.” with me. If both wrestlers agree to it, call a press conference and make the announcement. I promise him that I am ready for the Test.”

He also held a public meeting in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday and said that the protesting wrestlers have become ‘toys of politics’.

Speaking at the meeting, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said, “I do not understand that the children for whose success I sacrificed everything, have become toys of politics today.”

He said that even after four months have passed, the wrestlers do not have any audio, video or any other recording to prove their allegations against him.

Singh claimed, “He should know that today the whole country is angry. People of all castes and religions are standing with me.”

India’s top wrestlers, including Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, have been protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar since April 23, demanding Singh’s arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting seven female wrestlers, including a minor Has been done.

Earlier on May 10, protesting wrestlers had demanded a Supreme Court-monitored narco test on Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh after he claimed innocence on sexual assault allegations.

“Those people are speaking in favor of the WFI chief and saying we are lying, I would say Brij Bhushan should undergo a narco test under the Supreme Court… as well as seven women wrestlers (who have sexually assaulted harassment),” 2016 Rio Olympics bronze medalist Sakshi said at a press conference.

He said, ‘Whoever is guilty, hang him.’

On 28 April, a day after the Delhi Police filed two FIRs against him, Singh had claimed innocence and said he was ready to ‘face any kind of investigation’.

Meanwhile, on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Delhi Police is probing the case by registering an FIR against the BJP leader, while the Sports Ministry has suspended all activities of the Wrestling Federation with immediate effect till the allegations of the wrestlers are investigated. Completed