India News | DMK Expresses Solidarity with Protesting Wrestlers: TN CM
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on Monday expressed its solidarity with the Indian wrestlers staging a dharna at Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is accused of sexual harassment and intimidation.
Chennai, May 1 (PTI) The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on Monday expressed its solidarity with the Indian wrestlers staging a dharna at Jantar Mantar demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is accused of sexual harassment and intimidation.
The Dravidian major's parliamentarian M M Abdulla met the protesting wrestlers and expressed the DMK's support, said DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin.
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"It is heartbreaking to see Indian Wrestlers who brought honour to India, are forced to protest, for safeguarding self-respect in face of sexual harassment. Today, on behalf of DMK, Thiru.@pudugaiabdulla MP, met them and expressed our solidarity. We will stand by our wrestlers for justice," he said in a tweet.
The Delhi Police filed two FIRs against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Friday on allegations of sexual harassment levelled against the BJP MP by seven women wrestlers.
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The wrestlers have asserted that they would not leave the protest site until Singh is arrested. They resumed their sit-in last week and demanded that the findings of the panel that probed the allegations be made public.
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