India’s legendary wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia on Tuesday took to Twitter to specific their dismay over the Sports Ministry appointing a monitoring committee headed by six-time boxing world champion MC Mary Kom to run the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). resorting to.
The duo posted on Twitter, “We have been assured that we might be consulted earlier than the Oversight Committee was fashioned. It could be very unhappy that we weren’t even consulted earlier than the formation of this committee.
We have been assured that we might be consulted earlier than the Oversight Committee was fashioned. It could be very unhappy that we weren’t even consulted earlier than the formation of this committee. @narendramodi @AmitShah @ianuragthakur
– Bajrang Punia 🇮🇳 (@BajrangPunia) January 24, 2023
On Monday, Sports Minister Anurag Thakur named a five-member committee to run the day-to-day affairs on the WFI for the subsequent one month.
“The WFI President won’t discharge his duties and steer clear of the day-to-day affairs of the WFI. The day-to-day functioning of the WFI can be sorted by the Oversight Committee until their necessary time period and it’ll additionally look into the intense allegations in opposition to the WFI and its chief,” Thakur had mentioned.
“The monitoring committee can be headed by world champion Mary Kom. Along with him, Yogeshwar Dutt, MOC member and Dronacharya awardee Trupti Murgunde, former TOPS CEO Rajagopalan and former ED staff, SAI Radika Sreeman can be a part of the committee. In the subsequent one month, after speaking to all of the events, this committee will examine the sexual allegations and different allegations and provides its report. Till then all of the day-to-day selections and functioning of WFI can be sorted by this committee.”
The committee has been constituted by the Sports Ministry after Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was requested to step down after outstanding wrestling names throughout the nation together with Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat accused him of sexual harassment. three day protest.
Late final Friday evening, after a gathering with the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, Thakur had mentioned, “We are setting up an independent committee to look into all the allegations that the wrestlers have made against the WFI.” Have planted. The committee will submit its report in 4 weeks and by then Brij Bhushan will step down. He added that in this era, the committee would run the “day-to-day affairs of the WFI”.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) mentioned in a press release that after its government committee assembly, it was determined to kind a committee “as per the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women Act of 2013”, which might hear each the events and submit its report. Will do Report as quickly as attainable. IOA members together with Olympian boxer Mary Kom, archer Dola Banerjee and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt have been named within the inquiry panel.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
