Protesting wrestlers say they may throw their medals into Ganges, sit on starvation strike at India Gate

NEW DELHI: The nation’s prime wrestlers, who had been detained by Delhi Police and faraway from their Jantar Mantar protest website, on Tuesday stated they may throw their heard-earned medals into river Ganges and sit on a starvation strike “till loss of life” on the India Gate.

Sakshi Malik, a bronze medallist on the 2026 Olympics, stated in an announcement on her Twitter deal with that the wrestlers will go to Haridwar on Tuesday to immerse the medals into the holy river at 6 pm.
“These medals are our life and soul. We’re going to throw them within the Ganges. After that there isn’t a level of residing, so we are going to sit on a starvation strike till loss of life at India Gate,” she stated within the assertion written in Hindi.

The identical assertion was additionally shared by her compatriot Vinesh Phogat.

Tuesday occurs to be Ganga Dussera in Haridwar and presumably a day when lot of individuals might be there to supply prayers.

On Sunday, Delhi police detained Malik together with World Championships bronze winner Vinesh Phogat and one other Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia and later filed FIRs in opposition to them for violation of regulation and order, as dramatic scenes unfolded on the protest website at Jantar Mantar.

Unprecedented scenes of police dragging the Olympic and world championships medal-winning gamers had been witnessed when the wrestlers and their supporters breached the safety cordon forward of their march in direction of the brand new Parliament constructing for the deliberate ladies’s ‘Mahapanchayat’.

The wrestlers didn’t have permission to maneuver in direction of the brand new Parliament constructing, hours after it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and once they had been stopped by police, an unsightly scuffle broke out.

The protesting wrestlers and their supporters had been taken to totally different places within the nationwide capital and later launched.

After the wrestlers had been pushed into buses, the law enforcement officials cleared the protest website by eradicating the cots, mattresses, coolers, followers and the tarpaulin ceiling together with different belongings of the grapplers.
The Delhi Police stated it won’t enable the wrestlers again into the protest website.

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