Former WFI Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s aide Sanjay Singh on Thursday elected because the unutilized president of the WFI.”This is not my personal victory, this is the victory of the wrestlers of the country. All wrestling activities were stopped for 11 months. I hope that after the formation of the new federation, wrestling events will resume which were paused for the past 11 months,” mentioned Brij Bhushan to the media.
“A message has been given. Every akhaada in the country is bursting firecrackers. Dabdabaa tha, dabdabaa rahega!. I want to give the credit of victory to the wrestlers of the country and the electors. I want to thank the government as well. The elections were done on instructions of the Supreme Court and the Centre had submitted the PIL for this. Elections were held by the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Centre went ahead to make sure elections happened and a non-partisan person was chosen as president. This ‘grahan’ of 11 months on wrestling is over. Within 10 days, the landscape of wrestling will change again and we will perform in the Olympics the way people want us to,” concluded Brij Bhushan.
On Sanjay Singh elected because the unutilized president of the WFI, wrestler Sakshi Malik mentioned, “We have made demands for a woman president. If the president would be a woman, harassment would not happen. But, there was no participation of women earlier and today you can see the list, not even a single woman was given a position. We had fought with complete strength but this fight will continue. The wrestlers of the new generation have to fight.”
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Performed on Thursday, December 21, the WFI elections in spite of everything took playground later more than one postponements previous within the age. The vote casting befell previous within the generation in Unutilized Delhi, with the counting procedure starting off in a while thereafter.
Sanjay Singh’s panel emerged victorious within the WFI election, securing 40 votes, future the opposing panel garnered handiest 7 votes.
“National Camps (for wrestling) will be organised. Wrestlers who want to do politics can do politics, those who want to do wrestling will do wrestling,” Singh advised the newshounds.
Sanjay in the past held a place at the government council of the WFI. Establishing from 2019, he has moreover served because the joint secretary of the nationwide federation.
The WFI elections have been initially slated to be hung on August 12. Then again, the Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom, future keeping a listening to on a petition in August, prolonged the keep at the WFI elections until September 25. Elections to the federation, which oversees wrestling within the nation, have been to start with deliberate for June this age.
Previous, this era, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik met Union Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur at his place of dwelling within the nationwide capital for discussions at the WFI polls.
Sakshi’s husband Satyawart Kadian, a wrestler himself, was once additionally amongst those that known as at the minister. Talking to newshounds later the assembly, the wrestlers mentioned they have been confident that the federal government would book its commitment that nobody homogeneous or akin to Brij Bhushan would get a submit within the WFI.
As the effects are out the click convention is to be held through famous person wrestlers and Olympic medallists Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, who previous got here out in opposition to the now-deposed WFI Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accusing him of sexual harassment.
(With ANI Inputs)
