Protesting Wrestlers Will "Immerse Medals" In Ganga At Haridwar
NDTV
"...it seems that these medals decorated around our necks have no meaning anymore. It was killing me just thinking of returning them, but what use is a life lived compromising on your self-respect," she said in a Hindi letter on her Twitter account.
India's top wrestlers, who have been protesting against BJP MP and chief of the country's wrestling federation Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accused of sexually harassing several women wrestlers, including a minor, today said they will "immerse" their medals in the Ganga river at the holy city Haridwar in Uttarakhand as they feel it has "no meaning" anymore, and is only being used as a "mask" for propaganda by the system.
Even though "their lives would have no meaning" after losing the medals, they can't continue to compromise their self-respect, they have said.
"...it seems that these medals decorated around our necks have no meaning any more. It was killing me just thinking of returning them, but what use is a life lived compromising on your self-respect," a letter in Hindi, tweeted out by top athletes who have been leading the protests since earlier this year, said.
The letter said they wondered who they'd return the medals to. "The President, who is a woman herself, sat barely two kilometres away and watched. She didn't say anything," it said, on why they didn't feel like returning it to her.
