In her letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Phogat referred to Sakshi Malik's retirement from wrestling as well as Bajrang Punia's giving up his Padma Shri, and said she now felt revulsed by her own awards.
New Delhi: Writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that her Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and her Arjuna Award no longer mean anything to her, wrestler Vinesh Phogat said she wishes to return the medals to him.
That is why, Mr Prime Minister, I wish to return my Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award to you – so that these prizes do not burden us on our path to living with dignity,” Phogat wrote in Hindi.
Malik quit wrestling and Punia gave away his Padma Shri medal last week after Sanjay Singh, a man backed by Brij Bhushan, won elections to the WFI on Thursday (December 21).
Are we women athletes only fit to be published on the government’s advertisements?” Saying that the lives of women athletes differed from how the government’s posters depicted them to be, Phogat asked the prime minister to “take out just five minutes of [his] life” to listen to statements made in the media by “the exploiter”, a reference to Brij Bhushan.
This is very appalling,” she wrote, adding to say that wrestlers were hailed for winning medals but called traitors to the nation for raising their voices.
Following public outrage, the sports ministry dissolved the new WFI under Sanjay Singh on Saturday (December 24), appearing to slam its lack of regard for norms and the fact that it functions out of former officer bearers who are accused of sexually harassing players.
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New Delhi: Writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that her Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and her Arjuna Award no longer mean anything to her, wrestler Vinesh Phogat said she wishes to return the medals to him.
That is why, Mr Prime Minister, I wish to return my Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award to you – so that these prizes do not burden us on our path to living with dignity,” Phogat wrote in Hindi.
Malik quit wrestling and Punia gave away his Padma Shri medal last week after Sanjay Singh, a man backed by Brij Bhushan, won elections to the WFI on Thursday (December 21).
Are we women athletes only fit to be published on the government’s advertisements?” Saying that the lives of women athletes differed from how the government’s posters depicted them to be, Phogat asked the prime minister to “take out just five minutes of [his] life” to listen to statements made in the media by “the exploiter”, a reference to Brij Bhushan.
This is very appalling,” she wrote, adding to say that wrestlers were hailed for winning medals but called traitors to the nation for raising their voices.
Following public outrage, the sports ministry dissolved the new WFI under Sanjay Singh on Saturday (December 24), appearing to slam its lack of regard for norms and the fact that it functions out of former officer bearers who are accused of sexually harassing players.
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