Jantar Mantar Protest: Protesting wrestlers appeals to PM Modi

Wrestlers sitting on a dharna at Jantar Mantar asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 'Why are you not listening to our Mann Ki Baat?', and his party's MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh asked him for time to discuss the sexual harassment allegations against them. Various farmer organizations, Khap leaders, politicians and women's organizations have also reached the protest site in the last three days in support of the wrestlers.

Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Satyapal Malik also reached the protest site and said that it is shameful that respected players have to fight for justice on the streets to achieve success at the international level. The country's top wrestlers on Sunday resumed their protest against the head of the wrestling federation, three months after ending their sit-in following the formation of a monitoring committee to probe the serious allegations.

PM Modi has turned a blind eye to our plight: Wrestler

The Sports Ministry is yet to make public the findings of the six-member monitoring panel, which submitted its report on April 5. Wrestlers on Wednesday said they were surprised that Prime Minister Modi respected them and posed for pictures with them when they won medals but turned a blind eye to their plight now that they are demanding justice.

Rio Olympic Games bronze medalist Sakshi Malik told the media, "Prime Minister Modi ji talks about 'Beti Bachao' and 'Beti Padhao' and listens to everyone's 'Mann Ki Baat'. Can't he listen to our 'Mann Ki Baat' now?

Sakshi Malik said, 'When we win medals, he invites us to his house and gives us a lot of respect and calls us his daughters. Today we appeal to them to listen to our 'Mann Ki Baat'.

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