NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday said that he will join the wrestlers in their protest against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh who is booked for alleged sexual exploitation of 9 women wrestlers, including a minor.
“Will join the “सत्याग्रह” at Jantar Mantar around noon today,” tweeted, Sidhu.
The protesting wrestlers, who first levelled allegations of sexual harassment against Singh in January, had resumed their sit-in last Sunday to demand that the findings of the Centre-appointed panel that probed the charges be made public.
The Delhi Police had on Fridays filed two FIRs, including one under the POCSO Act, against the BJP MP, who has completed 12 years as WFI President and is ineligible to become an office bearer. The WFI president claimed that the wrestlers want to take over the WFI and that only one family, the Phogats, is behind the protest. Wrestler Bajrang Punia countered the charge “If you have to be in WFI, then you have to be a member of a state association. We don’t want control of WFI.”