New Delhi:
The enduring India Gate is out of bounds for sit-in protests, the newest setback to protesting wrestlers, who’re headed to Haridwar to immerse their medals in Ganga, in protest in opposition to Wrestling physique chief who they allege sexually harassed a number of ladies wrestlers.
After the medals immersion, the wrestlers had mentioned they’ll sit on a fast-unto-death at India Gate.
“India Gate shouldn’t be a protest web site and we won’t permit them (wrestlers) to protest there,” information company PTI reported quoting a police supply.
For every other protest web site, the wrestlers must search permission, mentioned Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police Suman Nalwa.
Earlier, the wrestlers had been moved out of Jantar Mantar, the bottom zero for protests.
“These medals are our life and soul. We’re going to immerse them within the Ganga as a result of she is Maa Ganga. After that, there isn’t any level of residing, so we are going to sit on a starvation strike till dying at India Gate,” mentioned Sakshee Malikkh, a bronze medallist on the 2016 Rio Olympics, in a press release written in Hindi. The identical assertion was additionally shared by different protesting wrestlers.
Ms Malikkh mentioned the ladies wrestlers felt there’s nothing left for them on this nation because the “system has handled them cheaply”.
On Sunday, unprecedented scenes of police dragging the Olympic and world championships medal-winning gamers had been witnessed when the wrestlers and their supporters breached the safety cordon forward of their march in the direction of the brand new Parliament constructing for the deliberate ladies’s ‘Mahapanchayat’.
The grapplers had been detained and charged for rioting, illegal meeting and obstructing a public servant from performing her obligation.
The wrestlers have been protesting in Delhi since April 23, demanding the arrest of wrestling physique chief Brij Bhushan, who can be a BJP MP.