Farmers Break Through Barricades To Join Wrestlers’ Protest At Delhi’s Jantar Mantar

NEW DELHI: According to Delhi Police, the farmers who traveled to the capital from different states to show their support for the protesting grapplers at Jantar Mantar on Monday 'climbed the barricades' up in the area ‘in hurry’ to get to the protest venue.

Farmers from all over the nation, including Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh, arrived in the capital on Sunday to support the wrestlers staging a sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh, demanding his dismissal and arrest in response to the wrestlers' allegations of sexual harassment.

The farmers who were escorted to Jantar Mantar were in a ‘hurry’ to go to the protest spot and thus ‘climbed’ the barricades, the Delhi police stated.

The wrestlers who are protesting have made it clear that they won't stop till Brij Bhushan is arrested and dismissed as the head of the WFI.

"A group of farmers were escorted to Delhi's Jantar Mantar. At the entry barricades, they were in a hurry to reach the Dharna site in which some of them climbed the barricades which fell down and were removed by them. The protestors at Jantar Mantar are being facilitated. Entry is being regulated through DFMD to ensure safety. Please remain peaceful and abide by the law," said the Delhi Police.

"The decision that has been taken in this fight for justice, is that if something is not done by May 21, if our demands (to arrest Brijbhushan Sharan Singh) are not met during that period then we will have to take a big call," wrestler Vinesh told the media.

On April 23, Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshi Mallik went back to the Jantar Mantar protest site and asserted that despite a complaint of sexual harassment against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh being made by six female wrestlers and a minor at the Connaught Place Police Station, no FIR had been filed by Delhi Police.

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