NEW DELHI: Alleging the government of turning "deaf and blind" to their movement, India's leading female wrestlers and Olympians, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshee Malikkh – at the forefront of the fight against Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) sidelined president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh – on Sunday implored the women member of parliaments (MPs) from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to join their protest at Jantar Mantar here and provide them justice.
Holding a press conference at the protest site, both Vinesh and Sakshee, who along with Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia, are demanding the arrest of Singh – a BJP-strongman and six-time Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh – on charges of sexually harassing the seven women wrestlers, including a minor, informed that they will be sending hand-written letters as well as emails to women MPs from BJP from Monday onwards to press for their demand for justice. The two showed an identical letter written separately to union finance minister and BJP's Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka, Nirmala Sitharaman, and union minister for women and child development and minority affairs and Lok Sabha MP from Amethi constituency, Smriti Zubin Irani. The letter has been written to all 43 women MPs of BJP. The wrestlers' protest entered its 22nd day on Sunday.
