Wrestlers call off protest; WFI president to step aside till probe is completed

New Delhi, January 21

It took a little over six hours but the deliberations between Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and the wrestlers, including Ravi Dahiya, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, bore fruit as they called off their three-day-long dharna.

The wrestlers had dug in their heels, demanding the immediate removal of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and the disbanding of the sports body because of sexual harassment allegations and other “gross irregularities” in the functioning of the federation.