Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has slammed Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s newest declare that he had solely hugged a feminine wrestler as a father determine, describing it as “sick and disgusting”.
In a information channel interview, a clip of which Chaturvedi retweeted, Singh will be heard saying, “The lady wrestler desired to speak together with her father, however missing a cell phone, I provided mine for her to make use of and linked her with him. After speaking, I hugged her. When she felt uncomfortable, I informed her that I’m hugging her like a father.”
Reacting sharply to his feedback, Chaturvedi tweeted, “Sick and disgusting. Benefiting from the highly effective place he’s in to use a wrestler who got here to hunt his assist. No you don’t give ANY WOMAN A HUG WITHOUT HER CONSENT AND THEN JUSTIFY IT AS A FATHERLY HUG.”
The Rajya Sabha MP hit out on the Bharatiya Janata Get together of defending the WFI president. “Disgrace on BJP for persevering with to defend this individual. Larger disgrace that the WCD Minister continues to be shamelessly silent,” Chaturvedi tweeted.
India’s high wrestlers, together with Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, have been protesting and demanding motion in opposition to Singh over sexual harassment expenses made in opposition to him by some feminine grapplers in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. They’re additionally demanding that the findings of a committee shaped to probe their allegations be made public and Singh faraway from his put up pending investigation.
In the meantime, Vinesh Phogat, the largest face of the wrestlers’ protest, on Tuesday alleged that complaints associated to sexual harassment have been hushed up previously by the WFI and sports activities minister Anurag Thakur did the identical by forming an oversight panel as an alternative of taking concrete motion.
Vinesh claimed that twice previously sexual harassment circumstances have been reported throughout the nationwide camp however the WFI succeeded in sweeping the matter below the carpet.
The World Championship medallist mentioned the complainants had shared their ordeal in a gathering with the sports activities minister however he didn’t do something apart from constituting an oversight panel.
The wrestlers had referred to as off their protest in January after getting assurances from the federal government that the matter could be probed, and a five-member panel was shaped to look into the allegations of sexual harassment in opposition to Singh.
Malik mentioned the motive behind the protest, as being projected, was to not search exemptions from trials. She claimed she was requested to seem in a trial overseas when she had already gained a trial in India. One other lady, in 2012, was requested to reappear in a trial inside 24 hours of successful.
(With inputs from PTI)