New Delhi. Amidst the controversy of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), agitating 8 big wrestlers have announced not to participate in a competition to be held abroad. Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat are also among these wrestlers. A wrestler has said to withdraw his name due to injury. Due to this, there is a possibility of deepening the dispute of the wrestling association. According to the news, Bajrang Punia, his wife Sangeeta Phogat, Vinesh Phogat, silver medalist in Tokyo Olympics Ravi Dahiya, medalist in World Championship Deepak Punia, Anshu Malik, Sarita Mor and Jitendra Kinha talked about skipping the Zagreb Open Grand Prix competition. Somewhere
Of these, Anshu Malik says that he is injured. The remaining 7 wrestlers have said that they could not prepare due to the dispute with the Wrestling Federation of India. Because of this the names are being withdrawn. The Sports Ministry of the Central Government had also given the green signal to all the wrestlers to participate in the competition to be held in Zagreb. Wrestling Federation had sent the names of all these. After this, now the agitating wrestlers have refused to go abroad. Due to this, the dispute of wrestling association can take a new form.
Let us tell you that in the past, under the leadership of Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, the wrestlers had opened a front against the President of the Wrestling Association, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. These wrestlers had accused Brij Bhushan Sharan of sexual exploitation. After the two-day strike by the wrestlers, the government constituted a committee of 7 members to investigate. At the same time, a separate committee has also been formed under the leadership of boxer Mary Kom to look into the functioning of the wrestling association. The wrestlers had already said that they will not participate in any competition until Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is removed. Now saying that there is no preparation, they are not going to the competition.