Wrestlers’ Protest: ‘Why Daughters Can’t Get Justice’, Mallikarjun Kharge Asks Center

New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday questioned why there is a reluctance on the part of the central government to bring justice to wrestlers protesting against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Brijbhushan Sharan Singh. , She accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of delivering long lectures on respect for women from the Red Fort and still shielding those who harass women. Kharge’s comments came after a week-long agitation by wrestlers in Delhi, who on Tuesday reached Haridwar in Uttarakhand with plans to immerse their medals in the Ganges river.

“Daughters of India are saying that ‘police and order’ is no longer sacred. In the last few days we have seen what has happened to the daughters who have brought laurels to the country. Modi ji gives long speeches on respect of women. ” From Red Fort, but the one who is accused of sexual assault has full protection,” Mallikarjun Kharge said in a tweet in Hindi.

After all, what is stubbornness, why daughters do not get justice? Why only daughters are made to stand in the dock? He asked why they were forced to throw their medals in Maa Ganga.

The Congress leader also took a dig at the Modi government’s ‘Beti Bachao’ campaign and called it ‘Save the criminal’.

Wrestlers, many of whom are Olympic medalists, were removed by the police from their protest site at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Sunday. They are demanding the immediate removal and arrest of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, against whom the Delhi Police has registered two FIRs for alleged sexual assault.

India’s top wrestlers threaten to immerse their medals in the Ganges

Accompanied by hundreds of supporters, some of India’s best wrestlers gathered on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar on Tuesday and threatened to immerse their world and Olympic medals in the holy river, but declined after persuasion by khap and farmer leaders. Who had demanded five days. Resolve their grievances.

Olympic medalists Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia and Asian Games gold medalist Vinesh Phogat have reached Har Ki Pauri to protest against the non-action against Singh, who they claim has sexually assaulted several female wrestlers.

pic.twitter.com/wdMCzeADEo— Sakshi Malik (@SakshiMalik) May 30, 2023

After being evicted from Jantar Mantar on May 28, the wrestlers have said that they will continue their protest and will be on hunger strike ’till death’ at India Gate. However, Delhi Police reportedly said on Tuesday that they would not be allowed to protest at India Gate as it is a ‘national monument and not a venue for demonstrations’.