Even more distressing was the footage of a Tricolour lying coiled up on the road, where it could have been trampled upon by the khaki jackboots. The same Tricolour had been hoisted on foreign soil by these very wrestlers when they brought home their laurels.
The two grapplers who were pushed to the ground were identified as Vinesh Phogat and her cousin Sangeeta; as Vinesh tried to ward off the policewomen, Sangeeta clung on to her cousin while lying on the road; all this continued for a few dramatic minutes.
Less than two kilometres away from the newly inaugurated Parliament, top wrestlers, including Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, were jostled, shoved and hustled into buses as they tried to breach the barricades.
"I am pained to see this. There has to be a better way to deal with this," the reigning Olympic champion in javelin throw, Neeraj Chopra, wrote in a response to a video Sakshi posted on Twitter.
The athletes, who have been camping at Jantar Mantar for the last one month, had planned to host a 'Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat' outside the newly inaugurated Parliament as part of their ongoing protest against the Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Singh, a member of the ruling BJP, has been accused by the wrestlers of sexually harassing several female athletes.
These allegations have stirred a nationwide controversy, leading to widespread protests demanding his arrest.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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