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Some popcorn time...So SRK in one of his recent tweets has praising the new parliament building. Remember, this parliament building is not for BJP or any particular party...its for people of India (although many of us won't have an opportunity or chance to see if from the inside in-person) and much needed replacement.
https://twitter.com/iamsrk/status/1662506616317693952
What a magnificent new home for the people who uphold our Constitution, represent every citizen of this great Nation and protect the diversity of her one People @narendramodi ji. A new Parliament building for a New India but with the age old dream of Glory for India. Jai Hind! #MyParliamentMyPride
Boy, this has pissed off so many of his fans who have a diehard hatred for NaMo/BJP.

https://twitter.com/DrAyeshaRay/status/ ... 1613198344
So Shah Rukh Khan has now become the official spokesperson for Narendra Modi? Sad day for his many fans including myself!
Same. It will be hard to look at him with any devotion from this day onward. I don’t understand why he felt the need to do this. There was absolutely no necessity.
I know, right? Bollywood is full of spineless men and women. I had always hoped he (SRK) was one of the better ones. This is such a disgrace.
Shah Rukh Khan. I’m enraged. You owe your fans an explanation for why you thought this was necessary to do. Some of us have defended you through thick and thin when your effigies were being burnt and theaters screening your films were being vandalized by Hindu nationalists.
You come from a family of freedom fighters, @iamsrk, who fought for a certain vision of India. Seriously, is this the vision they had for India? What is wrong with you? Dil dukha diya.
Some people have such hatred for BJP/NaMo, that they can't distinguish an accomplishment for India vs a certain party. I am no fan of SRK or neither this tweet will change my views on him, but I can recognize his praise for India vs a particular person or party.

Sorry to have posted the above here...the above are kind of hatred driven propaganda that 2024 election will see from outside...like Dr. JS said, 2024 election season may not have begun in India, but certainly has begun in EU and US.
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Folks, a thought passed through my mind.

After looking at the investiture ceremony if Sengol & the blessings to the new parliament from all faiths:

Adhogati of #Pappu has started.
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Pappu has always been in adhogati. No education, no culture, no respect for others, no enlightenment, only entitlement, no achievement only arrogance. That itself is adhogati. Sycophants around him stooped even lower to put him up on their pedestal. Don't pull him out of the dark dustbin on such a shubha and shobhana occasion.
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I feel he has been put on silent mode by the puppet masters

I don't seem to see any many speeches, pressers or social media statements by him.

The onion merchant had put the pressure on the Matron and even in Kar it was the local leaders who were at the forefront.

The spin will be given that he prefers to work in the background and shun the limelight

He and the BIF are more dangerous now, as they seem to have cleverly switched strategy to local issues and exploit local weaknesses.

Having governments at state levels can put the brakes on the overall progress of the country
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Apparently Pappu has a sponsored show coming up in Stanford very soon, as part of his US trip? He will be opening a pyaar ki dukaan in the Fundraiser land. I'm not kidding.
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Any links to parliament ceremony?
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All over youtube.
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Streamed live 6 hours ago

chaitanya wrote:Any links to parliament ceremony?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPCu3dJh2E


LIVE | Inauguration of New Parliament Building


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So one question...reading a lot of complaints/comments on Twitter on how President of India was not part of New Parliament inauguration...any reason why President was not included?
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Thanks for the help!
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Cyrano wrote:Apparently Pappu has a sponsored show coming up in Stanford very soon, as part of his US trip? He will be opening a pyaar ki dukaan in the Fundraiser land. I'm not kidding.
so he will be hiring a suit from karol bagh fairly soon then
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Zynda wrote:So one question...reading a lot of complaints/comments on Twitter on how President of India was not part of New Parliament inauguration...any reason why President was not included?
It seems that if the President is present at a ceremony, no one else can be the chief guest.
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https://sundayguardianlive.com/nine-yea ... kons-prime
The Fourth Battle of Panipat beckons Prime Minister Modi
Madhav Nalapat, May 27, 2023

Haryana is the site of some of the most consequential battles in the long history of India, including that fought at Kurukshetra. The war fought on its plains between the Kauravas and the Pandavas more than three millennia ago is narrated in the Mahabharata, which though among the greatest of world epics is yet to find its deserved place in school curricula. Haryana is also where Panipat is. In countries where the past is treated more respectfully, the town would have been a global tourist destination. For Panipat is where three battles of transformational historical significance were fought around six and four centuries ago. The Battles of Panipat altered the future of India. In the first (1526), Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi to usher in the Mughal Empire, while in the second (1556), Akbar defeated Hemu, thereby ensuring two more centuries of Mughal rule. The Third Battle of Panipat (1761) was between Ahmed Shah Durrani and Sadashivrao Bhau. Had the latter triumphed, the Marathas would have replaced the Mughals as the rulers of most of India. The Marathas lost the battle but continued to harass their foes, thereby exhausting themselves as well as their adversaries to such an extent that the way was opened for the British to launch their conquest of India. Given such a history, it is Panipat that comes to mind at the already started campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, for the verdict in the forthcoming Lok Sabha contest between Narendra Modi and a combination of his principal opponents will alter India’s history.
From 2014 onwards, as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has been working on a 15-year plan for the transformation of India, and while the contours of such a change are becoming clearer, only through a third 5-year term can Modi ensure that the change is made to a depth that makes it permanent. Opposing him are those who seek a return to the past, a state of affairs that has steadily been uprooted since 26 May 2014, he took on the responsibility for the administration of India on the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Given the incalculable stakes that are involved in the coming national polls, it is small wonder that those intent on replacing Narendra Modi are operating at full throttle in denigrating him and his achievements. Social media in particular is being harnessed by those seeking to confine Modi to a two-term Prime Minister to convey to multiple groups and sub-groups of electors that the nine years of the Modi government were not beneficially transformative but regressive. Or that progress, although present, was woefully inadequate given the needs of the citizenry. Now he is nearing the close of his second term, a period in which the Prime Minister faced daunting headwinds. These include the disruptions caused by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and those of the Ukraine war since 2022. The economic distress caused by such externally created disasters is being sought to be placed entirely on the Prime Minister’s shoulders, as though it were Modi who was responsible for the lab leak at Wuhan that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, and who persuaded Putin to launch an invasion of Ukraine two years later. The chants of the anti-Modi groups are becoming louder that taxes and prices are too high and job growth is too low, and of course, all this is the fault of the PM. Their motto is ABM, Anyone but Modi. Such is the daily lament.
The problem facing the ABM movement is that since Modi became PM in 2014, throughout the country significant improvements have taken place in the matter of housing, nutrition and health. Wherever possible, the schemes responsible for such progress have been renamed and packaged in a way designed to take the credit away from the central to the concerned state government. Action by the ED and the CBI on those with far too much money to explain away is portrayed as a vendetta on political opponents rather than as a war on corruption. Narendra Modi has been in office as Prime Minister for two consecutive terms and counting. Those seeking Modi’s replacement have been travelling within the country and overseas, describing India as having become a despotic fiefdom. A frequent claim is that India is a country where (since Modi took charge of the Union Government) elections that are held have a pre-determined outcome, and where the Election Commission is a cipher. A claim disproved by the many poll results where the BJP has lost, and yet gets repeated, especially abroad, so as to try and create doubts about the reality that is democracy in India.
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So one question...reading a lot of complaints/comments on Twitter on how President of India was not part of New Parliament inauguration...any reason why President was not included?
Not a constitutional expert, but my 2 NP:

In ALL past instances involving inauguration of new facilities in either states or Parliament, neither the President nor the Governor have been invited. The inauguration of Parliament Annex was done by Indira amma as PM, Parliament Library by Rajiv Gandhi as PM, and in Chattisgarh it was actually Mamamia and Pappu who - even while having no official post at all- inaugurated the new Legislative building! In fact on not even a single occasion has the Congress ever invited the Governor or the President

That perhaps could be that while as per Article 71 President is part of the parliament, s/he does not ever take part in any proceedings

But frankly, the controversy is a manufactured one as pappu could not find anything else to bawl about :D
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morem wrote:
Zynda wrote:So one question...reading a lot of complaints/comments on Twitter on how President of India was not part of New Parliament inauguration...any reason why President was not included?
It seems that if the President is present at a ceremony, no one else can be the chief guest.
If I remember correctly, there are protocol issues. Sometime back, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, who was the VP that time, did not attend a function, and people blamed his religion or belief or some such thing. He then stated that he did not come because he was not invited due to protocol. I hope someone here at BRF will have the exact reasoning for this.
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@SitaramYechury
Democracy is about the relationship between the State & the Citizen. Where all citizens are equal irrespective of Caste, Creed or Gender.

State is administrated by a Govt elected by the People.


Modi is destroying this democracy & now invokes the medieval ‘Sengol’, symbol of Autocracy.

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In the Constitution Hall of the new parliament building there’s a sculpture of a priest holding aloft a Sengol with fierce pride. So the restoration and the related takedown of Chacha and his chamchas was long in the making.

The execution displayed quiet discipline and ruthless premeditation that should send a terrifying message to the right quarters.
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^^^
That was the image of Chanakya taking pledge to destroy Nandas and make Bharat glorious again.
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Just hoping the Sengol makes it to the Indian Passport cover some day soon. It is now a symbol of our Democracy afterall. The meltdown in pappu/paki circles will be something :rotfl:
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Modi/ BJP will not be in power forever. The way some parties have opposed both the new Parliament and Sengol.

I am wondering:

1) Will the opposition melt the Sengol in the name of secularism?

2) Blow up the new parliament building?
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Pratyush wrote:Modi/ BJP will not be in power forever. The way some parties have opposed both the new Parliament and Sengol.

I am wondering:

1) Will the opposition melt the Sengol in the name of secularism?

2) Blow up the new parliament building?
They will do all that, and more, as long as the people don't impose a political cost to it. As of now, the picture is not very encouraging (a few examples that come to mind):

- one CM almost threatened to derail the national Republic Day parade and pulled back at the last minute
- another CM refused to attend the Republic Day parade due to a tiff with the Governor
- yet another sent an underling to meet the (current) President when she was on a visit to the state
- openly threatening media persons who don't tow the line (remember Arnab?)
- openly siding with one community to the extent of banning the majority community's festivals for the sake of the former.
- threatening the Governor of a state with bodily harm and terrorism
- immediately and openly reversing the policies of the predecessor govt, despite those policies having been enacted based on the people's mandate to that govt. Karnataka is a good example of this as we speak. Never mind if it appears inhuman: Karnataka: Government Withdraws Appointment Order Of Nutana Kumari, Slain BJP Worker Praveen Nettaru's Wife
- refuse to attend events of national importance like the new Parliament building inauguration
- outright contempt and distate while associating/participating in Hindu ceremonies (Stalin once threw away the vibhuti, and innemerable examples of RaGa attending some function without any idea about how to participate)
- calling for the extermination of a specific community, or wishing for destroying Sanatanam, etc.

I'm not even going into openly corrupt/criminal practices and the like.

Where have the voting public imposed a cost on the esteemed politicians involved in the above list?
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Zynda wrote:So one question...reading a lot of complaints/comments on Twitter on how President of India was not part of New Parliament inauguration...any reason why President was not included?
President of India has nothing to do with Parliament. He only advises PM of India who is elected by MPs whom are elected by people of India sitting in parliament.
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Y I Patel wrote:In the Constitution Hall of the new parliament building there’s a sculpture of a priest holding aloft a Sengol with fierce pride. So the restoration and the related takedown of Chacha and his chamchas was long in the making.

The execution displayed quiet discipline and ruthless premeditation that should send a terrifying message to the right quarters.
Boss have you become so woke that you cant recognize Chanakya?
He is not a priest.
The image has his untied hair tuft, And can read the inscription under it!
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Pratyush wrote:Modi/ BJP will not be in power forever. The way some parties have opposed both the new Parliament and Sengol.

I am wondering:

1) Will the opposition melt the Sengol in the name of secularism?

2) Blow up the new parliament building?
Pratyush dont put incendiary posts.
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Rahul Gandhi's US event hosted & sponsored by Tanzeem Ansari, Niaz Khan, Jaweed Syed, Habeen Siddiqui, Mohammad Aslam, Minaj Khan, Nazeer Syed, Aquil Mohammad, Shaheen Khateen and Hashir Qazi.

If one got told this was Pakistan's new T20 lineup, you would believe without a second of doubt.

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Isnt Brothel a Mohabbat ki Dukhan?
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:lol: Ramana garu, good one!
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ramana wrote:Isnt Brothel a Mohabbat ki Dukhan?
Dukan is a capitalist world. You have to say Mehal- e - Mohabbat. Full Urdu mode. :mrgreen:
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Yagnasri wrote:
ramana wrote:Isnt Brothel a Mohabbat ki Dukhan?
Dukan is a capitalist world. You have to say Mehal- e - Mohabbat. Full Urdu mode. :mrgreen:
रंडीखाना is most truthful and brief
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ramana wrote:Isnt Brothel a Mohabbat ki Dukhan?
Ji in Dukhan you can buy, this one is already sold.
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Yagnasri wrote:
ramana wrote:Isnt Brothel a Mohabbat ki Dukhan?
Dukan is a capitalist world. You have to say Mehal- e - Mohabbat. Full Urdu mode. :mrgreen:
Dukaan has alternative meanings to colloquial Hindi speakers too.

:rotfl:
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ramana wrote:Isnt Brothel a Mohabbat ki Dukhan?
You have hit the nail on the head Ramanaji. Real mohabbat is not something that can be bought or sold in a shop. This offering from RaGa is right up there with GUBO offered on sale by TSP.
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SDREs are not cultured enough to appreciate cultured languages like Urdu. Mahel e Mohabbat. How cultured it sounds.

Just like they do not appreciate the youthful dimples of Gandi.
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Posting here as there is a significant political component:

What is the latest with the wrestlers agitation? It seems to have taken a new life now… there were posters in front of SRTs house today as to why he is keeping mum. Meanwhile, another nobody called Raj Thackrey has jumped in the fray..

Has any girl come forward yet? Earlier I had heard ridiculous numbers such as 10000 abused etc..
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Also Rahul Gandhi uvacha:

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/r ... 2023-05-31

“ During a speech in San Francisco, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said India is being run by a group of people who are 'absolutely convinced' that they know everything. He said they could sit down with God and explain things and PM Narendra Modi is 'one such specimen'.”
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ramana wrote:
Y I Patel wrote:In the Constitution Hall of the new parliament building there’s a sculpture of a priest holding aloft a Sengol with fierce pride. So the restoration and the related takedown of Chacha and his chamchas was long in the making.

The execution displayed quiet discipline and ruthless premeditation that should send a terrifying message to the right quarters.
Boss have you become so woke that you cant recognize Chanakya?
He is not a priest.
The image has his untied hair tuft, And can read the inscription under it!
It’s not helpful for the level of discussion if senior members resort to gotcha type comments
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Tanaji wrote:What is the latest with the wrestlers agitation? It seems to have taken a new life now… there were posters in front of SRTs house today as to why he is keeping mum
It is these kind of agitations which convinces me that Amit Shah and the much hyped Ajit Doval are clueless on handling agitations. Right from Shaheen Baug seiges, various shady groups have been able to conspire, bring in large groups of people and seige various parts of the national capital. The Dilli Pulis is still under the control of A. Shah. Shaheen Baug happened, then the farmer's protest drama happened and now it is time for the wrestlers. Looks like organisations like the Special Branch and even the IB does not have any idea on what kind of 'protests' are getting planned near the national capital.

The BJP startegy seems to be just keeping quiet and hope that the party workers would use social media to launch counter campaigns. But the main stream media has much more stronger machinery to engage in propaganda. In the 'wrestler's drama' the BJP government has already lost the propaganda war. In social media, I see counter arguments. That the Phogat family wants absolute control on the wrestling game. All these folks want to compete in Olympics without competing in the National games first. The protesting gang was very close to Brij Bushan Sharan Singh, but recently changed their stance. The women wrestlers complain about s-exual harrasment which happened 4-5 years back! What stopped them from complaining then?

The wrestler gang does not want to give any good evidence to the police to prove their claims. They are not very keen to go to court either. But they want the MP to be thrown out of his MP-ship and then jailed. Now that the Dakait brothers have joined with their farmer and Khap Panchayath stuff, most likely it is an attempt to get the Jatt community away from the BJP. The main stream media which considered Khap Panchayath as part of evil 'Brahminical patriarchy' now sings a different song.

But I liked the way the police called the bluff of the wrestler gang. The police did nothing when they threatened to throw away their medals in Ganga river. Finally to save face the Dakait brothers made some excuse and requested them to abandon their plans :roll:.
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Sachin wrote:
Tanaji wrote:What is the latest with the wrestlers agitation? It seems to have taken a new life now… there were posters in front of SRTs house today as to why he is keeping mum
It is these kind of agitations which convinces me that Amit Shah and the much hyped Ajit Doval are clueless on handling agitations. Right from Shaheen Baug seiges, various shady groups have been able to conspire, bring in large groups of people and seige various parts of the national capital. The Dilli Pulis is still under the control of A. Shah. Shaheen Baug happened, then the farmer's protest drama happened and now it is time for the wrestlers. Looks like organisations like the Special Branch and even the IB does not have any idea on what kind of 'protests' are getting planned near the national capital.

The BJP startegy seems to be just keeping quiet and hope that the party workers would use social media to launch counter campaigns. But the main stream media has much more stronger machinery to engage in propaganda. In the 'wrestler's drama' the BJP government has already lost the propaganda war. In social media, I see counter arguments. That the Phogat family wants absolute control on the wrestling game. All these folks want to compete in Olympics without competing in the National games first. The protesting gang was very close to Brij Bushan Sharan Singh, but recently changed their stance. The women wrestlers complain about s-exual harrasment which happened 4-5 years back! What stopped them from complaining then?

The wrestler gang does not want to give any good evidence to the police to prove their claims. They are not very keen to go to court either. But they want the MP to be thrown out of his MP-ship and then jailed. Now that the Dakait brothers have joined with their farmer and Khap Panchayath stuff, most likely it is an attempt to get the Jatt community away from the BJP. The main stream media which considered Khap Panchayath as part of evil 'Brahminical patriarchy' now sings a different song.

But I liked the way the police called the bluff of the wrestler gang. The police did nothing when they threatened to throw away their medals in Ganga river. Finally to save face the Dakait brothers made some excuse and requested them to abandon their plans :roll:.
saar,

the hooda (congi) gang wants to totally control wrestling in India.

Unfortunately the BJP has no option but to stay quiet because they are in lower in both states UP + haryana They cannot afford to take sides because they will lose support in both states

The world wrestling federation and other such "sports bodies" getting involved in this issue has all the makings of a toolkit in the deployment phase.

the very same evil spirits who, on an earlier occasion and so vociferously, had claimed to be the one true representatives of the farmers of India, have suddenly morphed into their new avatars of now becoming the sole representatives of the wrestlers.

It is a remarkable transformation and it is also a toolkit that has now begun to be deployed

BTW, Brij Bhushan's term has ended/is ending soon and he has made all the arrangements to ensure that a relative of his takes over from him after the WFI elections

The jats and their gangs from haryana want to grab control of the wrestling in India but are afraid that brij bushan will be able to get his nominee through in the elections and so are very keen to disgrace him totally and get the wrestling federation of India dissolved.

Meanwhile, the nautanki continues, and sensing the opportunity, the vishesh samuday have also got involved
DYFI, SFI to hold nationwide protest from June 4 in support of wrestlers’ protest
“DYFI and SFI demanded the immediate arrest of Brij Bhushan and to withdraw all false cases against the wrestlers immediately. Through this protest, we demand that the Prime minister should apologize for the police violence unleashed upon wrestlers,” DYFI national president AA Rahim said.


https://theprint.in/india/dyfi-sfi-to-h ... t/1604312/

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Janmabhumi - Behind the wrestling struggle is the tug of war




Differences between the Yadava and Jat communities in India date back to prehistoric times. Yadavas are dominant in UP and Jats in Haryana as the two caste groups that dominate North Indian politics. There are many leaders who have emerged from both communities in various political parties. Similarly, there are those who have emerged from both communities in the field of sports. There are caste-based differences, disputes and complaints in situations where politicians and the sports sector are united. It is an open secret that the wrestling of two Yadava-Jat leaders is behind the latest developments that have rocked the Wrestling Federation of India.

It has been alleged that the sportsmen’s strike at Jantar Mandir in Delhi is the remnant of the decade-long rift between Congress leader and prominent Jat from Haryana, Deepender Singh Hooda, and Lok Sabha member from UP, Brij Bhushan Singh, for the post of president of the Wrestling Federation of India.

The events started in the 2011 Wrestling Federation elections. The Haryana Wrestling Federation went to the Delhi High Court against the election of wrestler Dushyant Sharma, a native of Jammu and Kashmir, as its president and won a favorable verdict. The court order was to conduct a re-election. Even the Haryana Federation’s case was aimed at getting Deepender Singh Hooda, who was a Congress leader and a representative of the Jat community in Haryana, to become the head of the Wrestling Federation of India. But the prominent Yadav leader Brijbhushan Singh, who was the then Samajwadi Party MP and the head of wrestling akhadas in Ayodhya and Gonda regions, also wanted to head the Wrestling Federation of India. Braj Bhushan met SP leader Mulayam Singh and conveyed the demand. Mulayam directly called the then all-powerful Ahmed Patel in national politics and fulfilled the demand. Ahmed Patel asked Dipender Singh Hooda to withdraw his nomination papers. Hooda paper was withdrawn with great distress. Then in 2011, Brajbhushan Singh became the head of the Wrestling Federation of India. Brajbhushan repeated the victory in 2015 and 2019. Brajbhushan joined the BJP before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and later won as an MP. In 2011 and 215 in 2019, Deepender Singh Hooda continued to win as the president of the Haryana Wrestling Federation. Wrestling Federation of India has achieved great achievements under Brajbhushan Singh. India has won many international medals. But it is also noteworthy that the majority of them were given by Hariani wrestlers. Many things, including the selection of wrestlers for international venues, resulted in a rift between the Brajbhushan and Haryana federations.

In 2016, there were big disputes in the federation regarding sending wrestling to the Rio Olympics. The issue was between Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar and Narsingh Yadav. Sushil tried to go to Rio but the federation decided on nursing. Sushil was from Haryana and Narsingh was from UP. As usual, the matter came before the Delhi High Court and the court upheld the decision of the National Federation of Nursing to leave. But Nursing failed the dope test. Narsingh had alleged that Haryana and Sushilkumar mixed intoxicants in his food. In 2020, Haryana wrestler Vinesh Pogat was suspended by the national federation for replacing the Indian logo with the sponsor’s logo. Vinesh’s decision not to stay with his teammates at the Tokyo Olympics was also controversial. The issues between the Haryana Federation and the National Federation have been exacerbated by the new selection rules introduced in November 2021. The rule has been tightened that medal winners should participate in Nationals and Trials. Quota was also implemented for each state. But Haryana Federation opposed this. Following this dispute, Brajbhushan Singh dissolved Deepender Singh Hooda’s Haryana Wrestling Federation in July 2022.

Vinesh Poghat and Sakshi Malik stepped up their protest against the new selection rule and did not participate in the National Games in Gujarat and the selection trials in Delhi in December. Bajrang Poonia, Deepak Poonia and Ravikumar Dahiya also withdrew from the national meet citing various reasons. In December 2022, the National Federation again made it mandatory to participate in the selection trial to participate in the Asian Games. This has turned into actions that will destroy the sporting future of Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Pogat and Sakshi Malik. Such various issues prompted the sports players to start a strike against Brajbhushan Singh in Delhi in January this year. In the first phase, Brajbhushan’s strict stance and others were raised as the reason for the complaint of the sports players. The complaint of all the three athletes was that his way of working was unacceptable. But later the sports players from Haryana intensified their strike against Braj Bhushan after raising complaints of sexual harassment. The central government formed a special committee and announced an inquiry and removed Brajbhushan Singh as the head of the Wrestling Federation of India and transferred the charge to an ad hoc committee.

The election to the Wrestling Federation was scheduled for May 2023. As a person cannot hold the post of president more than three times, it was confirmed that this time Dipender Singh Hooda will become the head of the national federation. But Brajbhushan tried to get his son to head the federation and made matters worse. The demand of Bajrang, Sakshi and Vinesh is to let them go to the Asian Games without trials. Hooda’s demand is to head the national federation. Brajbhushan’s supporters allege that they are making a concerted move against the common enemy, Brajbhushan. Those who are close to Brajbhushan point out that all the sports players who have complained of being molested and sexually harassed by Brajbhushan are under the Haryana Federation. No one even knows who the seven disgraced athletes are. Brajbhushan has alleged that only those in Deepender Singh Hooda’s akhada complained against him. Delhi Police has stepped up action against Brajbhushan by lodging two FIRs on the complaint of sportspersons. But the politicians and those in the sports sector are clearly convinced that this is a competition to be at the head of the federation. It is also mysterious that no one, including sportspersons raising complaints of sexual harassment, came forward and gave a statement in front of the Indian Olympic Association’s investigation committee, despite being asked to do so several times. The protesting athletes and parties including the CPM are interested in insulting the IOA president PT Usha MP who said that the action of the sportspersons is a shame to the country and the athletes should approach the Olympic Association.

In 2015, in Turkey, Brajbhushan Singh touched him in a bad way, said Vinesh Pogat in front of the Central Government Committee chaired by Marycom. But later it became clear that Vinesh Pogat had not gone to Turkey in 2015. When asked about this, he said that the incident happened in 2016 in Mongolia. In an interview in 2018, Vinesh said that he had never been sexually assaulted in his career.

Sakshi Malik complained that Brajbhushan hugged her badly. But in all the released pictures, both of them are happily celebrating their victories with their hands on their shoulders. There was also an allegation that Brajbhushan had asked the mobile number of the witness. The investigation revealed that even once Brajbhushan did not call the witness. The female physician, who complained that Brajbhushan asked for a massage in Bulgaria, told the committee that he only asked for pain killers. This information in the Marycom committee report was published by the Economics Times two weeks ago.

The aim of the Congress and CPM parties, who are trying to stir the pond and catch fish by interfering in the issue, is only to embarrass the central government. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh elections later this year and next year’s Haryana elections are the target of the Congress. Don’t portray BJP as anti-women and anti-Jat

Congress is trying to change the subject as an opportunity. Opposition parties are also trying to use the issue as an opportunity to divide BJP’s strong vote bank. About one million rupees have been spent so far to prepare facilities for the Haryana sportsmen’s strike at Jantarmantar. Many scenes can be seen in Jantarmantar which show that there are big groups behind the struggle. Athletes come from Deepender Singh Hooda’s akhadas for the strike. Although politicians were sidelined in the first phase of the strike, the second phase of the strike has been completely politicized. The central government is of the view that Brajbhushan should be punished if he committed a mistake. But there is a strong concern that these protests will disrupt the Indian sports sector, which is progressing internationally.
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