BREAKING: Wrestler Bajrang Punia Returns Padma Shri Award, Tells PM Modi ‘I Cannot Live With This Respect’ After Sakshi Malik Announced Retirement
Bajrang Punia, Olympic medallist and face of the Wrestlers Protest, returned his Padma Shri award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. In a letter to the PM posted on social media website X (formerly Twitter), Bajrang said that he cannot live the ‘respect’ given by the government of India at a time when women wrestlers have been insulted. Bajrang’s decision to return the medal has come a day after Sanjay Singh was eleced as the chairman of the Wreslting Federation of India (WFI). Sanjay happens to be a close aide of the former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, whom the female wrestlers had accused of sexual harassment among other things.
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