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"I have severed ties with wrestling": Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
BJP MP and former wrestling federation chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, on Monday he has severed all ties with the sport and his upcoming meeting with Union Home Minister Amit will have nothing to do with it.
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"Will talk to PM Modi, Sports Minister..., future of children getting ruin
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
In a major decision, coming in light of fresh protests by star wrestlers Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia over the election of an aide of deposed WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh as the new president of the wrestling federation, the Union Sports Ministry on Sunday suspended the sport
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"Sanjay is not my relative, I have retired from wrestling": Brij Bhushan r
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh stated that he has "retired" from the sport and has "nothing to do with it" following the Union Sports Ministry's decision to suspend the newly elected sport's premier governing body in the country along
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"Whoever elected as WFI chief, job of athletes is to practice": BJP MP Ram
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Amid the heated debate on the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections with wrestler Sakshi Malik announcing retirement and Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia returned his Padma Shri, Bharatiya Janata Party MP, Ramesh Bidhuri has said that the athletes should have the ment
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"Focus on...career": Wrestler Sangram Singh after WFI elections
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's aide Sanjay Singh on Thursday was elected as the new president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).
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"Newly elected federation should be allowed to function," says former wres
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh-aide Sanjay Singh was on Thursday elected as the new president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).
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"It's very unfortunate...", AAP's Saurabh Bharadwaj expresses concern afte
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
" It's very unfortunate for India that our Olympian women who made our nation proud had to sit at Jantar Mantar compound to seek justice against former WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh...Now, once again, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's aide has become the WFI chief. How would ou
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"I came here as woman": Priyanka Gandhi meets Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Friday met Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and assured the ace wrestlers of her support in their grievances.
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"Will not take it back home": Bajrang Punia leaves Padma Shri on Kartavya
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
India's ace wrestler Bajrang Punia, who on Friday announced that he is returning his Padma Shri after former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's aide was elected president of the federation, said he will not take the medal back home and placed it on the pavement near Kartavya Path in cent
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"I am returning my Padma Shri...": Wrestler Bajrang Punia writes to PM Mod
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
India's ace wrestler Bajrang Punia on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he is returning his Padma Shri as a mark of protest over the results of the recent Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections where Sanjay Singh, an aide of former WFI president Brij Bh
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"BJP's policy to make daughter cry, torment": Congress's Randeep Surjewala
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Reacting to this, Surjewala while addressing a press conference in the national capital, said, "The announcement of the retirement of the country's first female wrestler to win an Olympic berth after the election of BJP MP Brij Bhushan's assistant and 'nominee' Sanjay Singh, accused of sexua
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"I quit wrestling…," Sakshi Malik breaks down after Brij Bhushan aide elec
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik, who was a face of wrestlers' protest against former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations, on Thursday announced that she is quitting wrestling after his aide Sanjay Singh was elected president of the federation
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