Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik has accused BJP leader and former Commonwealth Games gold medallist Babita Phogat of using the Wrestlers Protest for her selfish motives and weakening their protest. On Saturday, Sakshi and her husband Satyawart Kadian posted a video alleging that Babita and BJP leader Teerath Rana had given the wrestlers permission to protest at Jantar Mantar but later changed their narrative and said that the protest is being used by parties for political purposes.
The country’s top wrestlers, including Sakshi, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia have accused outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment and demanded his arrest.
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Satyawart and Sakshi also furnished a letter, which allegedly showed Babita and Rana had taken permission from the Jantar Mantar police station for the wrestlers to stage a sit-in.
Sakshi, in a tweet on Sunday, wrote, “In the video (posted on Saturday), we had taunted Teerath Rana and Babita Phogat that how they were trying to use wrestlers for their selfishness and how when the wrestlers were in trouble, they went and sat on the lap of the government.”
“We are definitely in trouble, but our sense of humour should not become so weak that we cannot even laugh at the jokes of the powerful,” she added.
In April, Vinesh — one of the three top wrestlers leading the protest against Brij Bhushan — had also requested her cousin Babita “to not weaken our movement” by issuing contradictory statements on social media.
Babita had also joined the oversight committee formed by the Sports Ministry to investigate the allegations of sexual harassment against Brij Bhushan.
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