Vinesh Phogat leaves Khel Ratna, Arjuna award at Kartavya Path pavement

Whereas trying to go away her awards outdoors the Prime Minister’s Workplace in New Delhi, Vinesh was stopped by the police at Kartavya Path and determined it to go away her awards on the pavement there. AP

4 days after having written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that she would return her awards, wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Saturday left her Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards on Kartavya Path’s pavement in New Delhi. On 26 December, Vinesh had written to PM Modi saying that she was dissatisfied with the developments across the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), who had introduced Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s aide Sanjay Singh as their new president on 21 December.

“Sir, our medals and awards are being valued at 15 rupees, however these medals are extra treasured to us than our lives. After we received medals for the nation, the entire nation celebrated us with pleasure. Now, once we elevate our voices for justice, we’re being known as traitors. Prime Minister, I need to ask you, are we traitors?,” Vinesh had written in her letter.

Whereas trying to go away her awards outdoors the Prime Minister’s Workplace in New Delhi, Vinesh was stopped by the police at Kartavya Path and determined it to go away her awards on the pavement there.

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Brij Bhushan had been accused of sexual harassment by some wrestlers in January this yr, with Vinesh, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia main a sequence of protests towards the Bharatiya Janata Celebration MP.

Earlier in December, Bajrang Punia had additionally returned his Padma Shri award, leaving it on the Kartavya Path pavement. Sakshi Malik, in the meantime, introduced her resolution to give up wrestling on 21 December.

“Could at the present time not come within the lifetime of any participant. The ladies wrestlers of the nation are going via the worst section,” Bajrang had posted on ‘X’ on Saturday.