Olympic medal winning wrestlers gave up Padma honors and quit wrestling. Why!
Olympic medal winning wrestlers gave up Padma honors and quit wrestling. Why!
India has become one such country, where female wrestlers,
fed up with the sexual exploitation of top officials, have announced that they
have quit wrestling. The thing to think about is that despite all this
happening in the country, the government has not taken any such steps that it
can be said that women wrestlers should return to the sport.
Female wrestler Sakshi Malik, who won the first Olympic medal
for India in women's wrestling, left her wrestling saying that she is fed up of
fighting with the sexual exploitation system of the presidents of the Indian
Wrestling Federation and cannot fight anymore, hence she left wrestling. I
stayed here and left that wrestling.
This incident has not stopped here. After this, male wrestler
Bajrang Punia returned the Padma Award received from the Government of India to
the Prime Minister. Punia returned the Padma award by placing it in front of
Prime Minister Awas.
Along with returning the Padma Award, Bajrang Punia also
wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister. In the letter, Bajrang Punia
mentioned that we are returning our respect to you. We could not save the honor
of our sisters and daughters, so we are returning the honor.
Bajrang Punia wrote in the letter that we fought for the
honor of our sisters and daughters and to get them justice, but could not get
them justice and could not return their lost honor. Now what will I do with my
respect? This honor will haunt us throughout our lives. That's why I am
returning my Padma Award to you.
After female wrestler Sakshi Malik and male wrestler Bajrang
Punia, another Indian female wrestler Vinesh Phogat also returned the Padma
Award received from the Government of India.
It is known that all these players had started a war in the
year 2022 against the sexual exploitation of
female wrestlers by Indian Wrestling Federation Brijbhushan Sharan Singh. These
people went to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this matter. After this,
these people protested across the country, but they could not get justice.
Several cases of sexual exploitation of female wrestlers were
filed against former Indian Wrestling Federation of India head Brijbhushan
Sharan Singh in the court and Delhi Police, in its investigation, found that he
could be prosecuted and punished.
The thing to think about is that even after all this, Modi government could not take any action against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
In such serious cases, the police could not thrash Singh and
could not even arrest him for a day. Sharan Singh continued to roam freely and
also kept making indecent comments on the women wrestling movement. साक्षी मलिक सन्यास लीं। महिला पहलवानों का काला दिन।।
