Wrestlers have been protesting against the President of Wrestling Federation of India and BJP leader Brij Bhushan Singh for the last one month. This strike of wrestlers continues at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, after which preparations are being made for a mahapanchayat in front of the new parliament. Brij Bhushan Singh is accused of sexual harassment with female wrestlers. After which there is a demand for his arrest. The wrestlers sitting at Jantar Mantar include big wrestlers like Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia.
Speaking to Hindustan Times, medalist Bajrang Poonia, who was protesting against Brij Bhushan Singh, said, “We never felt that our voice would not be heard despite winning so many medals, although the reality is something else.”
Many people have been suffering for a long time – Poonia
Apart from the wrestlers at Jantar Mantar, there are many people who are sitting on dharna for their rights and their voices are not being heard for a long time. In which the people of Meitai community of Manipur are also sitting in protest against the violence, while some people are sitting on the problem of unemployment. In such a situation, wrestler Bajrang Punia while talking to HT said that “Sometimes you realize that you are not the only one suffering in this world. There are many people who are suffering more and longer.”
‘Fear of ending career’
Bajrang Punia said about Brij Bhushan Singh that “we know what we are up against, but we are not afraid.” Poonia also said that when she decided to protest with Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik in December, she had thought about all the possibilities ahead, but the way things are unfolding now, she was beyond her scope. Are.
Poonia said in this conversation, “We knew that our career could be over. We knew that post-career options like coaching or administration might not be available to us. We knew that we could be implicated in false cases. May be, but when the cause is genuine and the resolve strong, there is no room for fear. It was not an easy decision, but once we made up our mind, there were no second thoughts.”
separate law for the powerful
Talking about her long sit-in, Poonia said, “I never thought this protest would go on for this long. We thought that since we are international athletes, the government would listen to us. The whole point of risking our careers for us.” That was it. It hurts that we were left out in the cold. But we are wrestlers, don’t lose without a fight, I really feel there are two types of laws in this country, one for common people and another for people like Brij Bhushan Singh is for the powerful.
