Champions Deserve Our Support And Respect: Telangana Minister KTR On Wrestlers' Protest

KTR said, “These are champions who brought us glory on world stage. They deserve out support and respect.”

Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao

Source : ABP Desam

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao has slammed the Central government over the treatment meted out to wrestlers during their protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delh. Reacting to a tweet by wrestler Sakshi Malik, Telangana Minister KTR questioned "Can any responsible leader from Govt of India tell us why it has to be this way?"

"These are champions who brought us glory on the world stage," he said in a tweet.

Can any responsible leader from Govt of India tell us why it has to be this way?

These are champions who brought us glory on world stage! They deserve our support and respect #WrestlerProtest https://t.co/fS65wdD21l

— KTR (@KTRBRS) May 28, 2023

The wrestlers had been protesting for over a month for the arrest of WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

On Sunday, Delhi Police had detained protesting wrestlers who were trying to march towards the new Parliament when it was being inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Star wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshi Malik were booked in an FIR on Sunday along with other organisers after a scuffle broke out between them and the police at Jantar Mantar. They have been booked for rioting and obstructing public servants in the discharge of duty and the FIR was registered under Sections 147, 149, 186, 188, 332, 353 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.

Wrestler Bajrang Punia slammed the Delhi Police and said that it only took them a few hours to register FIR against the wrestlers but they took seven days to lodge an FIR against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh, reported news agency ANI.

Speaking to the reporters, Punia said, "It is unfortunate that a person accused of sexual harassment attended the inauguration of the new Parliament building…It took Delhi Police only a few hours to register an FIR against us but it took them 7 days to register an FIR against Brij Bhushan Singh."