Two-time World Championship bronze medalist and two-time Olympian Vinesh Phogat introduced on Tuesday that she\’s going to return the Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards. The 29-year-old addressed a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media platform X to announce her resolution.
Phogat\’s announcement comes 4 days after Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Bajrang Punia reinstated the Padma Shri. On December 21, Rio Video games bronze medalist Sakshi Malik introduced her retirement hours after former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Charan Singh backed by the Sanjay Singh Committee dominated the WFI polls.
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\”I\’ll return the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and Arjuna award. Many due to the highly effective who put me on this place,\” Phogat wrote. The wrestler obtained the Arjuna Award in 2016 and the Khel Ratna Award – India\’s highest sporting award for athletes – in 2020.
\”Sakshi Malik has give up wrestling and introduced again Bajrang Punia Padma Shri. Your complete nation is aware of why Olympic medalists had to do that and the information would have reached you too. Mr Prime Minister, I\’m your countrywoman Vinesh Phogat and I\’m writing to you to let you already know what I\’ve been by way of over the previous yr.\”
“I keep in mind that in 2016, when Sakshi Malik returned after profitable the Olympic medal, the federal government appointed her because the model ambassador for this system Beti Bachao Beti Badhao (Save the Lady Baby, Educate the Lady Baby). All of the wrestlers have been very completely satisfied. Now that Sakshi has been compelled to give up wrestling, my opinion is again. To 2016. Does arithmetic exist solely to seem in authorities commercials? We do not thoughts showing in these advertisements as a result of it gives the look that your authorities is working onerous for the higher. \”I dreamed of profitable an Olympic medal for my nation however now that dream is turning into more and more out of attain. I hope the upcoming feminine wrestlers obtain their desires.
“Our lives usually are not like these fancy commercials. Every little thing that girls wrestlers have gone by way of in the previous couple of years provides you with an concept of how suffocated we\’re. By now, the versatile flaps of your fancy commercials have worn away. Sakshi has already retired and the perpetrator not solely talked about his affect, however resorted to… Screaming slogans. Please take 5 minutes and take heed to his statements and you\’ll know what he did. He accepted that he made feminine wrestlers uncomfortable and he did so. He went out of his solution to humiliate us and extra importantly he compelled lots of the complainers to again down, which is actually terrifying.
“I\’ve tried to place this complete episode behind me nevertheless it\’s not simple. I advised you all the pieces after we met. For the previous yr, we have been on the streets demanding justice however nobody bothered to hear. They advised us the medals are value it.” $15 However these honors are dearer to us than our lives. Now that we elevate our voice for justice, we\’re labeled as traitors. Mr. Prime Minister, are we traitors?
\”I do not know what prompted Bajrang to return the Padma Shri, however the picture of him returning the honour is consuming away at me. Like him, I hate the awards I get too. Once I obtained these honors, my mom distributed sweets within the neighborhood and urged me to take action. My family members have been watching The information is on TV, and I shudder to assume what these family members will say to my mom now.
\”I need to do away with the picture of Vignesh accepting these accolades, as a result of that was a dream and all the pieces that occurs to us is actuality. No mom needs her daughter to undergo that. She obtained the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and Arjuna award, none of it means something anymore.\” Something for me. Each girl needs to dwell with dignity. Because of this, I\’m bringing again the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award in order that these awards don\’t burden us in our quest for dignity. Life,” Fugate concluded.
Sanjay Singh, who returned to his hometown Varanasi on Tuesday, held an enormous promotion. \”It was an actual present of energy. A procession of lots of of vehicles handed by way of town and other people showered their love. It took me six hours to cowl a distance of 35 kilometres,\” mentioned Sanjay, whose Fb web page broadcast the occasion.
He added: \”Concerning Fenech\’s resolution to return her award, that is none of my enterprise. It\’s her private resolution. I hope that the Ministry of Sports activities will rethink its resolution to droop FIFA.\”
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