The movement to 'clean up' Indian wrestling has inadvertently left young grapplers as collateral damage —cancelled competitions now threaten their sports careers and job prospects.
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The Olympic medal winner posted an open letter to PM Modi on X. Another Olympic medal winner, Sakshee Malikkh, had quit the sport Thursday to protest Sanjay Singh’s appointment.
Mallikh's announcement came at conference held with fellow wrestlers Bajrang Punia & Vinesh Phogat, after Sanjay Kumar Singh was elected Wrestling Federation of India president.
Punia, who lost out at Asian Games, was supported by fellow wrestlers & INDIA alliance. The Oppn bloc lauded him for ‘facing a goon, while demanding justice for women wrestlers’.
1 arrested in case. Man purportedly featured in video says it was him & his girlfriend & not Malik. Wrestler among those who had accused ex WFI chief Brij Bhushan of 'sexual harassment'.
Families of women wrestlers said they wanted women appointed at all levels of training and running the wrestling federation, as well as other sporting bodies.
In video shared on Twitter, wrestlers Sakshee Malikkh & her husband Satyawart Kadian claimed permission for them to protest at the Delhi site was taken by 2 BJP leaders, among them Phogat.
At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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