Top wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia denied media allegations that they had withdrawn from the current protest against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) head and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who was accused of sexually harassing many female grapplers.
“This is entirely false news. We have not and will not give up the struggle for justice. Along with Satyagraha, I am carrying out my duties in Railways. Our battle will not be over until justice is served. Please don’t share any false information,” Malik tweeted, along with a screenshot of a TV channel’s broadcast.
“The report of the movement’s withdrawal is only a hearsay. These stories are being propagated in order to hurt us. We have neither retreated nor have we stopped the march. The report of female wrestlers filing a FIR is also untrue. “The fight will continue until justice is served,” Punia said on Twitter.
Malik, Punia, and Vinesh Phogat, who were evicted from their Jantar Mantar protest camp on May 28, have returned to work for Indian Railways. According to Northern Railways headquarters, Malik joined her Baroda House office in New Delhi on May 31, a day after the high drama in Haridwar, where the trio stopped short of immersing their international medals in the Ganga due to a late intervention by Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) president Naresh Tikait.
According to the Hindustan Times, Malik sanctioned the holding of Railways inter-divisional championships in cricket (men), badminton (men), weightlifting, basketball (men), volleyball (men), kabaddi (men), wrestling, boxing (men), athletics (men), and hockey (men) in a letter dated May 31.
