The newly elected president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Sanjay Singh on Saturday said that taking retirement is a private name of an athlete and mentioned he would chorus to talk on this matter. Earlier, Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik, a face of the wrestlers’ protest towards Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations, introduced on Thursday that she is quitting wrestling. Her choice got here inside an hour after Sanjay Singh was elected as the brand new WFI chief, changing Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Speaking to the reporters, Sanjay mentioned it is not against the law to be near former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh and he isn’t a “dummy candidate”.
“Those that are athletes have already began getting ready and people who need to interact in politics can do this. It’s their private matter, I cannot talk about this…I’ve been within the federation for 12 years. Simply because I’m near MP (Brij Bhushan Singh) doesn’t imply I’m a dummy candidate. Is it against the law if I’m near him?” Sanjay informed the reporters.
In the meantime, former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh mentioned that the federation will host Below-15 and Below-20 wrestling occasions from twenty eighth December to thirty first December.
“Due to some points, nationwide or state stage wrestling occasions have been paused within the nation for 11 months…We’ve got introduced to carry Below-15 and Below-20 wrestling occasions from twenty eighth December to thirty first December…If these tournaments usually are not organised inside thirty first, one full 12 months of the wrestlers might be affected,” Brij Bhushan informed the media.
Sakshi, distraught and emotional, broke down as she left the venue after addressing a press convention within the nationwide capital after saying her retirement.
Throughout the media interplay, the famend wrestler put her sneakers on the desk on the press convention as she introduced her choice to stop wrestling.
“We slept for 40 days on the roads and lots of people from a number of elements of the nation got here to help us. If Brij Bhushan Singh’s enterprise associate and a detailed aide is elected because the president of WFI, I stop wrestling,” she mentioned, accompanied by another wrestlers who have been a part of the protest.
A day after Sakshi’s choice, India’s ace wrestler Bajrang Punia on Friday introduced that he’s returning his Padma Shri after former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s aide was elected president of the Federation.
Punia shared an in depth publish on X, stating, “I’m returning my Padma Shri award to the Prime Minister. All I’ve to say is on this letter; that is my assertion.”
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