Wrestlers detained: A scuffle broke out between police and protesting wrestlers on May 28. Police arrested the grapplers marching towards the new Parliament building. Police also removed tents from the protest site at Jantar Mantar where the wrestlers have been staging a sit-in since April 23.
Khap panchayats of various states, farmers and protesting wrestlers have called for a ‘mahila samman mahapanchayat’ near the Parliament building on Sunday. The protesting wrestlers were marching towards the new Parliament building when they were detained. Barricades were also broken at Jantar Mantar.
Protest site cleared
Police launched a crackdown on the protesting grapplers and removed the tents from Jantar Mantar from the protest site.
Security personnel detained wrestler Bajrang Punia while he was marching towards Parliament building. The protesters have called it a ‘peaceful’ march, saying that it is their right to take to the streets.
The protesters were marching towards the new Parliament building for the ‘Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat’ when police detained them. Many wrestlers jumped over the police barricading at Jantar Mantar to march towards new Parliament building.
Videos and pictures showed protesters and police personnel engaging in a scuffle as the former tried to resist. In some videos, female police officers were forcibly dragging a woman away from the protest site.
Punia adamant on Mahapanchayat
“Mahapanchayat will certainly be held today. We’re fighting for our self-respect. They’re inaugurating the new Parliament building today, but murdering democracy in the country. We appeal to the administration to release our people detained by police,” wrestler Bajrang Punia said.
Meanwhile security has been beefed up at the Tikri border as khap panchayat leaders and farmers were planning to join the protest march.
Action demanded against WFI chief
The wrestlers’ protesting at Jantar Mantar are demanding action against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan. They have accused him of sexual harassment. They called a mahapanchayat outside the new Parliament building on Sunday, the same day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building.
The protest site at Jantar Mantar is about 3 km from the Parliament complex.
“We will not allow anything to disrupt the inauguration of the new Parliament building. The entire Delhi Police is on its toes to make sure the inauguration ceremony is conducted smoothly,” Delhi Police Special CP Deepender Pathak told reporters.
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