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Lok Sabha: BJP was brainstorming for many days to field a candidate for Kaiserganj Lok Sabha seat of Uttar Pradesh. Brijbhushan (Brijbhushan) Sharan Singh has dominated this seat since 2009. But this time the party has given ticket to his son in his place. It is believed that Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh did not get the ticket due to the allegations of women wrestlers. But the dominance of his own family still remains on this seat. Wrestler Sakshi Malik has expressed her displeasure over this decision of BJP.
Sakshi Malik’s anger erupted
Sakshi Malik targeted BJP for choosing Karan, son of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, as its candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from Kaiserganj seat in Uttar Pradesh. Sakshi said that the daughters of the country have been defeated by this decision.
Brij Bhushan was accused of sexual harassment
Top wrestlers including Sakshi, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat had accused Brij Bhushan of sexually harassing female wrestlers during his tenure as WFI chief and staged a months-long sit-in at Jantar Mantar demanding his arrest. Was.
Resentment among wrestlers
Brij Bhushan is the current MP from Kaiserganj and now there is resentment among the protesting wrestlers due to his son getting the BJP ticket from this seat. Sakshi wrote in a post on ‘X’, ‘The country’s daughters lost, Brij Bhushan won.’ Rio Olympics bronze medalist Sakshi, who retired from wrestling last year, said that the wrestlers’ demands for justice were not heeded. .
..Brijbhushan was not arrested
He said, ‘We all put our careers at stake, slept on the streets in the sun and rain for many days. Brij Bhushan has not been arrested till date. We were not asking for anything, we were only asking for justice.’ Sakshi said, ‘Leave the arrest, today by giving ticket to his son you have broken the morale of crores of daughters of the country. If the ticket goes to only one family, is the country’s government so weak in front of one man? Only votes are needed in the name of Lord Shri Ram, what about the path shown by him?
