Wrestlers protest: Sakshee Malikkh writes emotional letter: ‘Protesting wrestlers will "immerse medals" in Ganga’

Wrestlers protest: Olympic medal winner wrestler Sakshee Malikkh, who is among the athletes protesting against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, said the protesting wrestlers will "immerse" their medals in the holy Ganga river. They will do so even though "their lives would have no meaning" after losing the medals, she said in a letter that she shared on her Twitter account.

She said the grapplers will go to Haridwar and immerse the medals in river Ganga at 6 pm.

Sakshi pens her emotions

The athletes have accused Singh sexually harassing several women wrestlers, including a minor. "...it seems that these medals decorated around our necks have no meaning anymore. It was killing me just thinking of returning them. But what use is a life lived compromising on your self-respect," she said in a Hindi letter on her Twitter account.

Malikkh said they wondered who they'd return the medals to. "The President, who is a woman herself, sat barely two kilometres away and watched. She didn't say anything," she said, on why they couldn't return it to her.

'I am the system'

"Our Prime Minister, who used to call us daughters? We can't because he didn't ask about the daughters even once. Instead, our oppressor was at the inauguration of the new parliament building in dazzling white clothes, getting pictures clicked. This white was stinging us as if it was saying 'I am the system'," the letter further said.

“We don't need these medals anymore because this system does its own propaganda by hanging them around our necks and putting a mask on us. They then exploit us, and put us in jail if we protest," she said in the letter.

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