Wrestlers Protest: Yogeshwar Dutt furious over exemption in trial for wrestlers, verbal war with Vinesh Phogat

Olympic medalists Yogeshwar Dutt and Vinesh Phogat engaged in a war of words on social media on Friday after wrestlers who had accused former Wrestling Federation of India president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment were exempted from the Asian Games trials. .

Yogeshwar got furious over this decision of the ad hoc committee of wrestling. He said that this is a dark day for wrestling, this was the aim of the wrestlers. Vinesh Phogat, who was sitting on the dharna, retaliated by comparing Yogeshwar with Jaichand. Vinesh said that it was Yogeshwar who told Brijbhushan the names of the women wrestlers who made the allegations. Yogeshwar is eating a liar from Brijbhushan’s plate.

Yogeshwar said – raise your voice on exemption of other wrestlers
Yogeshwar Dutt opposed giving this exemption to the wrestlers sitting on dharna. Questioning the decision of the ad-hoc committee, Yogeshwar said that if such trials are to be conducted then Olympic medalist Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Deepak Poonia, Anshu Malik, Sonam Malik and country’s number two wrestlers should also be exempted. It is beyond their understanding to give exemption to those six wrestlers in the trial. This is totally wrong. He asked other wrestlers to raise their voice against this decision.

Yogeshwar had said that nothing would happen to Brijbhushan: Vinesh
Vinesh hit back and said on social media that Yogeshwar kept preventing wrestlers from joining the movement. He was part of both the inquiry committees formed on the allegations leveled by women wrestlers. When the women wrestlers were narrating their ordeal before the committee, he laughed in a very cheap way. When two female wrestlers went out, he told them that nothing will happen to Brij Bhushan, go and do your practice. She told another female wrestler that this has been going on, don’t make it such a big issue. Let me know if you need anything.

What is the matter
Ad-hoc committee constituted to conduct wrestling activities wrote to Bajrang, Vinesh, Sakshi Malik, Satyawart Kadian, Sangeeta Phogat and Jitender Kumar on June 16, asking them to play only one bout in August for the Asian Games/World Championships trials Will have to They will compete against the winning wrestlers of their respective weight categories in the trials.