New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by posting a purported copy of an FIR registered against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and called out the PM alleging he “did nothing” despite giving assurance to a woman wrestler. Moitra tweeted a screenshot from one of the FIRs, where a complainant mentions meeting PM Modi at his office in 2021 when the Prime Minister assured her “that such grievances will be looked into by the Sports Ministry.”
Taking to Twitter, the TMC MP wrote, “Hon’ble PM @narendramodi Ji - relevant section from wrestler’s FIR clearly mentions she met & informed you of MP’s misconduct. You assured her of full support. You did NOTHING. Your vows are all broken, & light is your fame; We hear your name spoken, & share in its shame.”
Mahua Moitra also highlighted a passage in the FIR copy which read, “I also informed the Hon'ble Prime Minister about the repeated sexual, emotional, physiological, physical trauma which was meted upon me and other female wrestlers by the accused no. 1 in conspiracy with his close aids to which, the Hon'ble Prime Minister reassured me that such grievances will be looked into by the Sports Ministry and I will shortly be getting a call.”
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took to the streets for the second day in a row in support of the protesting wrestlers by holding a candlelight march from the statue of Gostha Pal to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Mayo Road-Dufferin Road crossing in Kolkata.
Terming the wrestlers' struggle as a “struggle for life, justice, and independence”, CM Banerjee said that she will “fight till protesting wrestlers get justice”.