Wrestlers protest: Delhi police take away tents, clear Jantar Mantar protest website

On Sunday, May 28, following the detention of protesting wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia as they breached the security cordon whereas attempting to march within the course of the model new parliament setting up for a ‘Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat, the Jantar Mantra protest website has been cleared by the Delhi Police.

#WrestlerProtest: जंतर मंतर से पहलवानों का धरनास्थल दिल्ली पुलिस ने पूरी तरह से हटाया.

टेंट,पंडाल, गद्दा, कूलर और सभी
प्रबंध हटाए गए. धरनास्थल पूरी तरह से खाली किया गया. दिल्ली पुलिस और RAF ने जंतर मंतर को छावनी में तब्दील कर दिया है.

कई #पहलवानों को हिरासत में लिया गया है. pic.twitter.com/D7nAT2WrT4

— Shivam Pratap Singh (@journalistspsc) May 28, 2023

Right after the wrestlers had been put into buses and transferred to undisclosed areas, law enforcement officials began eradicating makeshift tents positioned by the protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar, The police cleared the protest website by eradicating the wrestlers’ tents, beds, mattresses, coolers, followers, and tarpaulin ceiling, along with totally different possessions.

Although no official assertion has been issued, media research counsel that the police isn’t going to allow the wrestlers to return to the protest website. The wrestlers had been recommended to not technique Parliament, nonetheless they did so anyhow, ensuing throughout the scuffle.

The wrestlers had launched that they deliberate to hold a girls’s Maha Panchayat in entrance of the model new Parliament as part of their protest in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan who has been accused of sexually harassing girls wrestlers.

Meanwhile, Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait and quite a lot of different farmers had been stopped by the Delhi Police on the Ghazipur border as soon as they tried to enter the nationwide capital to hitch the agitation referred to as by the protesting wrestlers outside the model new parliament setting up. 

Permission for the protest has not been given to the wrestlers who’ve been on a sit-in on the Jantar Mantar, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexually harassing girls grapplers.

“All others (farmers) have been stopped (by the police). We will sit proper right here for now and decide what to do subsequent. This is police’s misbehaviour, if individuals are going to hitch the protests, you may make them sit?, Tikait, who had spearheaded the anti-farm regulation protests, talked about after being stopped by the police on the intently fortified Ghazipur border.

Earlier Delhi Police talked about that “unsocial elements” gained’t not be allowed to enter the nationwide capital to verify clear conduct of the inauguration ceremony of the model new Parliament setting up.

Additionally, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Deependra Pathak, who was at Jantar Mantar the place wrestlers have been staging a sit-in since last month, acknowledged that the Delhi Police has made tight security preparations all through the nationwide capital, strategic areas, and bordering areas, ensuring that regulation and order may be saved up. He talked about, “We will not allow anything to disrupt the inauguration of the new Parliament building. The entire Delhi Police is on its toes to make sure the inauguration ceremony is conducted smoothly.”

“Any attempt to cause disruption during the inauguration of the new Parliament building will be met politely and firmly.” “I politely request that our esteemed athletes refrain from doing any such thing today,” he acknowledged.

Pathak further acknowledged that the police isn’t going to tolerate any anti-national actions on such an important day and may cope with any state of affairs professionally.