Bhartiya Kisan Union President Naresh Tikait has called for a Maha Panchayat on Thursday in Muzaffarnagar to discuss the issue of wrestlers.
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NEW DELHI — Beleaguered chief of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and BJP’s member of parliament Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, fighting allegations of sexual assault on female wrestlers, has upped the ante claiming that he would hang himself if charges against him are substantiated.
“If a single allegation against me is proven, I will hang myself,” he said on Tuesday while addressing a public rally in the Uttar Pradesh district of Barabanki.
Singh also poked fun at wrestlers for announcing to immerse their medals in Ganga as a mark of their protest against him, reports reaching here said on Wednesday.
“It has been four months and they want me to be hanged. The government is not hanging me that is why they gathered at Haridwar on Tuesday and threatened to immerse their medals in the Ganga. This will not bring the sentence that they want for me, it is all emotional drama,” he said.
“If you (wrestlers) have any evidence, present it in the court and I am ready to accept any punishment. Delhi Police are investigating the matter. I would have been arrested if there was any truth in the charges levelled by the wrestlers,” he added.
Meanwhile, Bhartiya Kisan Union President Naresh Tikait has called for a Maha Panchayat on Thursday in Muzaffarnagar to discuss the issue of wrestlers.
Tikait, on Tuesday, had gone to Haridwar to persuade the wrestlers against immersing their medals in the Ganga River. (With agency inputs)
