‘We Felt Hurt By What She Said’: Bajrang Punia’s Reply To PT Usha Over ‘dignity’ Remark

Top Indian wrestlers including Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, and many others are protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India president at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The Sports Ministry has now intervened in the matter and has directed the Indian Olympic Association to form an ad-hoc panel to who can manage its affairs and also will conduct fresh elections for the organization within 45 days of its formation.

The wrestlers are still protesting against the WFI chief but it looks like they are not happy with the statement of Indian Olympic Association president PT Usha’s statement that she gave a day earlier after the IOA’s Executive Committee meeting. Wrestler Bajrang Punia has now hit back at Usha and has said that they are ‘hurt’ by her statement.

Bajrang Punia said to ANI, “We feel bad because she herself has been a sportsperson, is our icon and a woman herself, and even after that she herself being a woman is saying such things about women sportspersons and she is calling our strike as indiscipline, I ask her I want to ask that when your academy and school were being demolished, you were tweeting, then the country’s dignity was not being affected. You have power, then this can happen to you, we don’t even have power, the people of the country are our power.”