HARISH RAWAT AT JANTAR MANTAR TO EXPRESS UTTARAKHAND’S SOLIDARITY WITH STRUGGLING WRESTLERS
The Congress party is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that maximum support is extended to struggling wrestlers and political mileage derived from their sit in at Jantar Mantar as not a single day is left when its leader do not visit the Dharna site and express their solidarity with the cause.
Till now several Congress leaders have visited Jantar Mantar to express their solidarity with struggling wrestlers majority of them women demanding not only ousting the sitting president of Wrestling Federation of India from his post held for more than a decade but also sending him behind bars.
The Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi, former Haryana CM Bhupender Hooda, MP n his son Deepender Hooda, Satyapal Malik, former J & K Governor etc had Already visited Jantar Mantar and stayed their for quite some time also addressing them. The accusations of protesting women wrestlers are very serious about sexual harrasment and physical assaults on the WFI chief n MP Brijmohan Sharan Singh claiming to have several credible evidences to substantiate their charges. However, despite the ruling party not submitting to their pressure the hon’ble supreme Court had directed the Delhi Police to register FIR against Brijbhushan Sharan Singh which took some time but the struggling wrestlers took it in right earnest as their first step towards victory continuing their protest Dharna at Jantar Mantar further demanding, putting him behind bar and ousting from the chairmanship of WFI.
Today, the former chief minister of Uttarakhand octogenarian Harish Rawat visited Jantar Mantar and expressed his solidarity with the struggling wrestlers demanding immediate action against the WFI chief and accusing him of allegedly outraging the modesty of our women wrestlers who’d brought laurels for the nation by winning Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in various prestigious international competitions. In a brief social media post after visiting Jantar Mantar and boosting the morale if the struggling wrestlers Harish Rawat wrote : These sportsmen have contributed in raising the name of the nation as our tricolour in the entire world. When they stand on the Podium wearing the medals, the head of Bharat mata is raised high with pride. Unfortunately today these brave and outstanding daughters who are equated with Lord Durga and counted as our most revered honour have to relentlessly struggle to demand justice and get the FIRs lodged for their obnoxious exploitation, running from pillar to post. Our sportsmen and sports women are sitting in Dharna at Jantar Mantar. I on behalf of Uttarakhand have presented myself in this Dharna af Jantar Mantar to express our emotional solidarity with them.
Meanwhile a senior journalist Habib Akhtar has in a statement expressed his immense annoyance over politicians of the ruling party dividing sportsman over caste and community considerations.
The senior journalist while expressing his disappointment and disenchantment over this narrow practice wrote in Hindi :
Politicians and journalists divide!
The most dangerous thing is the division of the people.
The politics of hatred and divisiveness of the last 9 years has divided people on caste lines on issues like sports.
Caste enmity has come to the fore on the strike of wrestlers.
Brij Bhushan Singh’s supporters started calling it a movement of Jats.
The exploitation and suffering of women wrestlers went aside and their Jat identity became visible. Now whoever – the victim starts telling his/ her pain, people who are intoxicated with hatred start telling his caste and religion.
Earlier caste and religion did not come in any case. The issue used to come. Humanity used to come. Which caste did Nirbhaya belong to, no one knows which caste the criminals belonged to?
The UPA government stood firmly with Nirbhaya on one side and took her to Singapore for treatment. Standing with the family. Took courage Gave security and all other help.
Rahul made Nirbhaya’s brother a pilot.
On the other hand, the criminals were taken to the gallows. Everything according to law without any politics. While the opposition of that time did all kinds of politics on this issue. dirtier than dirtier.
Today, in a case like Pasco, the FIR was also registered at the behest of the Supreme Court.
But the accused was neither removed from the wrestling association nor was he arrested.
On the contrary, allegations were leveled against women wrestlers. The issue of caste and province was raised.
Do the people who spread hatred for votes know how much the politics of division is making the country hollow from inside? Those who bring medals for the country from abroad ( various competitions) are now being segregated on caste lines wrote senior journalist Habib Akhtar. Meanwhile, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader and renowned activist against large dams Megha Parker also today went to Jantar Mantar and interacted with protesting wrestlers, extending her solidarity to their noble cause.
