Wrestlers’ demonstration: WFI chief to step aside

Synopsis The wrestlers, consisting of Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Ravi Dahiya, chose to end their demonstration after an advancement was attained throughout a 2nd round of talks with union sports minister Anurag Thakur.PTINew Delhi: Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia throughout their ‘dharna’ to oppose versus the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The aggrieved grapplers aborted their demonstration late on Friday night after getting guarantees from the federal government that their complaints would be attended to, the primary step of which was the stepping aside of under-fire Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The wrestlers, consisting of Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Ravi Dahiya, chose to end their demonstration after a development was attained throughout a 2nd round of talks with union sports minister Anurag Thakur. The wrestlers, a few of the nation’s finest, have actually levelled claims of unwanted sexual advances and corruption versus the WFI and its chief. “It has actually been chosen that an oversight committee will be formed. Names for which will be revealed tomorrow. The committee will finish its examination within 4 weeks. It will completely penetrate all the claims be it monetary or unwanted sexual advances that have actually been levelled versus WFI and its chief,” Thakur stated after the marathon conference. “Till the examination is over, he (Singh) will step aside and co-operate with the examination and the oversight committee will run the daily affairs of WFI,” he included. This came hardly couple of hours after the Indian Olympic Association had actually formed a
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