2016 Olympics bronze medal-winning wrestler Sakshi Malik believes the picture of final 12 months’s Wrestlers’ Protest was hit by Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia accepting to be exempted from the 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou.
In her newly launched e book, ‘Witness’, Sakshi – among the many three distinguished figures of the protest – concedes that ‘nothing good got here’ out of her colleagues accepting the ad-hoc committee’s determination, stating that it was one born out of ‘greed’.
“The previous mind-set selfishly was taking on as soon as once more. The individuals near Bajrang and Vinesh had began filling their minds with greed. Now they had been speaking about this exemption from trials for the Video games,” Sakshi shares.
“…Nothing good got here of Bajrang and Vinesh’s determination to take the exemption…their determination badly damage the picture of our protest. It put us in a scenario the place many supporters began to assume that we had been really within the protest for egocentric causes,” the 32-year-old provides.
Moreover, Vinesh additionally alleged former Commonwealth Video games gold medallist-turned-BJP politician Babita Phogat for not having the perfect pursuits of the protest and the wrestlers.
“In hindsight, whereas I do know that ending Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s reign was the first purpose for Vinesh and Bajrang, I made the error of considering that that was Babita’s sole intention too.”
Alongside Bajrang and Vinesh, Sakshi was concerned within the protest towards former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
The three had alleged that Sharan Singh, the previous head of the Wrestling Federation of India, sexually harassed ladies wrestlers throughout his tenure. The case continues to be being heard in a Delhi courtroom.
Lately, each Vinesh and Bajrang joined the Indian Nationwide Congress (INC) social gathering earlier than the Haryana meeting elections. Vinesh, who was disqualified from the Girls’s 50Kg Wrestling gold medal match on account of being 100gm chubby, gained the Julana seat within the Haryana Meeting election.
