Many junior wrestlers, their dad and mom and coaches reached the IOA headquarters on Thursday, demanding the withdrawal of exemption granted to Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia from the Asian Video games trials, a day after their protest in Haryana’s Hisar. Round 150 folks, together with relations of the wrestlers, are in search of a gathering with Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) President PT Usha and ad-hoc panel chief Bhupender Singh Bajwa.
“All we would like is a gathering with IOA high brass. We is not going to settle for any biased determination. That is improper. We’re right here to request the panel to withdraw exemption granted to Bajrang and Vinesh,” Vikas Bhardhwaj, the coach of promising Antim Panghal, informed PTI.
The reigning U-20 world champion Panghal and U-23 Asian champion Sujeet Kalkal had slammed the ad-hoc committee’s determination as unjust and unfair and asserted that they’re able to beating Bajrang and Vinesh if they’re pitted in opposition to them within the trials.
The duo had been, nevertheless, not current on the IOA Bhawan.
The IOA ad-hoc panel, led by Bajwa, had on Tuesday introduced the standards, saying trials might be held in all classes however they’ve already chosen the wrestlers in males’s free model 65kg and ladies’s 53kg weight class.
Panghal and Sujeet have additionally filed a petition on the Delhi Hight Courtroom, demanding {that a} directive be issued to the IOA ad-hoc committee to quash the exemption granted to Bajrang and Vinesh.
In a tweet, World Championships and Commonwealth Video games silver medallist Anshu Malik, who was a part of the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar in January, expressed her assist for the junior grapplers.
“An athlete’s largest dream is to win medals at occasions such because the Olympics and Asian Video games and make all of the countrymen proud however what if the rights of these gamers are snatched,” Anshu, who competes within the ladies’s 57kg class, tweeted.
“The demand for trials by junior gamers is right and it’s their proper. I assist the demand by the junior gamers,” she wrote in one other tweet.
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