Despite being “left in the lurch” by the sport’s world governing body, a still unbowed Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik on Thursday wrote an open (and likely futile) letter to United World Wrestling, urging the UWW to “take appropriate actions” against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).
Malik took to social media to post the letter after the UWW lifted the provisional suspension on the WFI after the federation failed to hold elections in time.
Just a day earlier, Malik had posted a video online in which she accused WFI president Sanjay Singh of devious means to get the suspension lifted.
Malik also warned of another wrestlers’ protest if Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and Sanjay Singh are not removed from Indian wrestling.
She has now written to the UWW herself and also tagged Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chief PT Usha in the post.
“An open letter to UWW members, please consider this and take appropriate actions against WFI,” Malik captioned her tweet.
Malik, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat led the more than year-long wrestlers’ protest in Delhi against former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual and mental harassment by several female wrestlers.
Brij Bhushan had to resign from the position but he made that sure that his close aide Sanjay Singh and his hand-picked loyalists took over the reins at the WFI, which again irked the wrestlers and forced them to come out and protest again. Malik even quit wrestling after Singh and Brij Bhushan’s chosen panel swept the WFI elections.
