Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik meet union minister after midnight initiation

Wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia arrived at Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur’s residence on Wednesday, hours after he invited them to ‘discuss their concerns’ late at night. Wrestlers have demanded that Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh be arrested on charges of sexual harassment and intimidation. Thakur took to his official […]

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by Reena Choudhary - June 7, 2023, 12:08 pm

Wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia arrived at Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur’s residence on Wednesday, hours after he invited them to ‘discuss their concerns’ late at night. Wrestlers have demanded that Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh be arrested on charges of sexual harassment and intimidation.

Thakur took to his official Twitter handle and wrote shortly after midnight on Wednesday that “The government is willing to have a discussion with wrestlers on their issues. I have once again invited the wrestlers for the same.”

Thakur’s invitation comes just days after the wrestlers met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the allegations against Brij Bhushan, a Bharatiya Janata Party MP. The wrestlers met Shah at his home last week but expressed dissatisfaction; Punia told reporters that the protesters were “not happy with the government’s response.”

He furthermore said that he wanted to know why Brij Bhushan had not yet been arrested, despite the fact that Delhi Police had filed two FIRs against him only after the Supreme Court intervened, and he warned Shah that the wrestlers would not back down.

Punia later told reporters that he had been told not to reveal that the wrestlers had met with Amit Shah, but he chose to do so anyway.

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