Will maintain myself if costs in direction of me proved: Wrestling Federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
4 min readBy PTI
BARABANKI: Outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who’s going via sexual harassment costs levelled by female wrestlers, on Wednesday acknowledged he’ll maintain himself even when a single allegation is confirmed in direction of him.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP moreover acknowledged all wrestlers are like his children and he will not blame them as his blood and sweat have moreover gone into their success.
“I am once again saying that if even if a single allegation is proved against me, I will hang myself,” Singh acknowledged whereas addressing a programme on the Mahadeva auditorium inside the Ramnagar area proper right here.
“It has been four months since they (wrestlers) want me to be hanged, but the government is not hanging me. So they were going to immerse their medals in the Ganga. Brij Bhushan will not be hanged by throwing medals in the Ganga. If you have proof, give it to the court and if the court hangs me, I will accept it,” the member of Parliament from Kaiserganj acknowledged.
He acknowledged he will not blame the wrestlers as his blood and sweat have moreover gone into their success.
“All the players are like my children. Until a few days ago, they used to call me the god of wrestling. When I took over as the wrestling federation chief, India was ranked 20th in the world. Today, after my hard work, India’s name is included among the five best wrestling teams in the world. I have lived wrestling day and night. Five of the seven Olympic medals (in wrestling) came to India during my tenure. The allegations levelled against me are baseless,” the outgoing WFI chief acknowledged.
#WATCH | “If a single allegation against me is proven, I will hang myself. If you (wrestlers) have any evidence, present it to the Court and I am ready to accept any punishment,” says WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh pic.twitter.com/hfoB7FOhWc
— ANI (@ANI) May 31, 2023
He urged the parents to hitch the “Jan Chetna Maha Rally” to be held in Ayodhya on June 5 in big numbers.
The wrestlers, along with Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat, who had been protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar since April 23 demanding Singh’s arrest, had been far from the positioning by police on Sunday after they tried to march within the path of the model new Parliament developing following its inauguration.
They had been detained sooner than being launched later.
The Delhi Police has registered two FIRs in direction of Singh. The first FIR pertains to the allegations levelled by a minor and it has been lodged beneath the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with the sections of the Indian Penal Code concerning outraging modesty.
The completely different FIR has been registered over complaints from women wrestlers pertaining to outraging modesty.
BARABANKI: Outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who’s going via sexual harassment costs levelled by female wrestlers, on Wednesday acknowledged he’ll maintain himself even when a single allegation is confirmed in direction of him.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP moreover acknowledged all wrestlers are like his children and he will not blame them as his blood and sweat have moreover gone into their success.
“I am once again saying that if even if a single allegation is proved against me, I will hang myself,” Singh acknowledged whereas addressing a programme on the Mahadeva auditorium inside the Ramnagar area proper right here.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“It has been four months since they (wrestlers) want me to be hanged, but the government is not hanging me. So they were going to immerse their medals in the Ganga. Brij Bhushan will not be hanged by throwing medals in the Ganga. If you have proof, give it to the court and if the court hangs me, I will accept it,” the member of Parliament from Kaiserganj acknowledged.
He acknowledged he will not blame the wrestlers as his blood and sweat have moreover gone into their success.
“All the players are like my children. Until a few days ago, they used to call me the god of wrestling. When I took over as the wrestling federation chief, India was ranked 20th in the world. Today, after my hard work, India’s name is included among the five best wrestling teams in the world. I have lived wrestling day and night. Five of the seven Olympic medals (in wrestling) came to India during my tenure. The allegations levelled against me are baseless,” the outgoing WFI chief acknowledged.
#WATCH | “If a single allegation against me is proven, I will hang myself. If you (wrestlers) have any evidence, present it to the Court and I am ready to accept any punishment,” says WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh pic.twitter.com/hfoB7FOhWc
— ANI (@ANI) May 31, 2023
He urged the parents to hitch the “Jan Chetna Maha Rally” to be held in Ayodhya on June 5 in big numbers.
The wrestlers, along with Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat, who had been protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar since April 23 demanding Singh’s arrest, had been far from the positioning by police on Sunday after they tried to march within the path of the model new Parliament developing following its inauguration.
They had been detained sooner than being launched later.
The Delhi Police has registered two FIRs in direction of Singh. The first FIR pertains to the allegations levelled by a minor and it has been lodged beneath the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with the sections of the Indian Penal Code concerning outraging modesty.
The completely different FIR has been registered over complaints from women wrestlers pertaining to outraging modesty.
