Protesting wrestlers say

they will IMMERSE

New Delhi: The wrestlers who have been challenging BJP MP and Wrestling Organization of India

chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said on Tuesday (May 30) that they will immerse every one of the

awards they have won for India into the Ganga.

This is the wrestlers' reaction to what unfolded on Sunday (May 28). The protesters were messed up and

mistreated by the police, and kept for a few hours. In the interim, the man they have blamed for sexual

harassment , Brij Bhushan Singh, was inside the new parliament building going to the introduction

service directed by prime minister Narendra Modi. The police likewise cleared the wrestlers ' dissent

site at Jantar Mantar, and have said they won't permit the wrestlers to bring there back.

They did not return the medals, they said, because who would they return them to? “The President, who

is a woman herself, sat barely two kilometres away and watched [on Sunday]. She didn’t say anything,”

the statement says.

The wrestlers expressed particular grief that the prime minister had not showed them any concern.

“Rather, he invited Brij Bhushan Singh to the inauguration of the new Parliament building. He even

posed for photographs in bright white clothes. This brightness is stinging us,” the statement reads.

So at 6 pm today, the wrestlers said, they will go to Haridwar and immerse their medals in the Ganga.

“These medals are our lives, our souls. There will be no reason to live after throwing them in the Ganga

today. So, we will stage a hunger strike until death at India Gate after that. India Gate is the spot where

we commemorate martyrs who gave up their lives for the country. We are not as pure as them, but

when we played at the international stage, our feelings were the same as those of the soldiers,” the

statement continues.

Several opposition leaders and some athletes had expressed anger and concern at the Delhi Police’s

actions on Sunday.

Why Indian wrestlers protesting ?

Top Indian wrestlers have been fighting in the city of New Delhi throughout the previous 10 days over

the absence of activity against the top of the nation's wrestling league, Brijbhushan Sharan Singh,

whom they blame for lewd behavior.

Singh, who is likewise a parliamentarian from prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP), has been blamed for sexual harassment with a few female competitors however has denied

every one of the claims