NEW DELHI: Union minister Manohar Lal Khattar made a giant declare towards the wrestlers’ protest on Wednesday as Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia met Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
The previous Haryana CM stated final 12 months’s protest is lastly “reaching its climax” because the wrestlers ask Congress for tickets to contest Haryana Meeting elections. Khattar additionally claimed the protest has all the time been politically motivated.
Khattar, who can be Haryana’s ex-CM, stated on Wednesday athletes “acquired trapped in a political maze”.
“I feel our athletes acquired trapped in a political maze at the moment (wrestlers’ protest). It’s reaching its climax at the moment, the identical individuals are urging Congress for a ticket. It signifies that all the matter was political,” Khattar advised information company ANI on experiences that Congress might give tickets to protesting wrestlers.
Khattar’s comment comes amid hypothesis that Congress might discipline wrestler Vinesh Phogat for the Haryana elections.
Earlier within the day, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia — who have been on the centre of wrestlers’ protest towards then WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh — met Congress chief and chief of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Phogat and Punia, together with fellow wrestler Sakshi Malik, had leveled critical allegations towards Brij Bhushan.
That they had accused him of sexual exploitation and intimidation, demanding his resignation and the dissolution of the federation. Nonetheless, the WFI categorically denied the allegations.
The Election Commission has scheduled the Haryana meeting elections for October 5, with the counting of votes set to happen on October 8.
The polling date was revised from the initially deliberate October 1, and the counting for each Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana assemblies was rescheduled from October 4 to October 8.
The previous Haryana CM stated final 12 months’s protest is lastly “reaching its climax” because the wrestlers ask Congress for tickets to contest Haryana Meeting elections. Khattar additionally claimed the protest has all the time been politically motivated.
Khattar, who can be Haryana’s ex-CM, stated on Wednesday athletes “acquired trapped in a political maze”.
“I feel our athletes acquired trapped in a political maze at the moment (wrestlers’ protest). It’s reaching its climax at the moment, the identical individuals are urging Congress for a ticket. It signifies that all the matter was political,” Khattar advised information company ANI on experiences that Congress might give tickets to protesting wrestlers.
Khattar’s comment comes amid hypothesis that Congress might discipline wrestler Vinesh Phogat for the Haryana elections.
Earlier within the day, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia — who have been on the centre of wrestlers’ protest towards then WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh — met Congress chief and chief of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Phogat and Punia, together with fellow wrestler Sakshi Malik, had leveled critical allegations towards Brij Bhushan.
That they had accused him of sexual exploitation and intimidation, demanding his resignation and the dissolution of the federation. Nonetheless, the WFI categorically denied the allegations.
The Election Commission has scheduled the Haryana meeting elections for October 5, with the counting of votes set to happen on October 8.
The polling date was revised from the initially deliberate October 1, and the counting for each Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana assemblies was rescheduled from October 4 to October 8.
