Prominent civil society members, including activists, retired IAS officers, lawyers and economists deplored the silence of the senior political leadership in the country and demanded that the investigation into the wrestlers’ allegations against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh should be headed by a Supreme Court-appointed judge. ‘Concerned Citizens’, a collective of prominent civil […]
The Delhi police today (May 28) have forcefully detained Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia while they were trying to move towards the new Parliament building for a women’s ‘Mahapanchayat’. After the protesting wrestlers were pushed into prison buses and taken to an unknown location, the police officers began clearing the protest site by removing […]
Support for wrestlers, who have been protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, since April 23, is widening with every passing day, even as the Narendra Modi government stubbornly refuses to take action against Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Saran Singh, against whom very serious allegations of sexual harassment have been made […]