Mobilenews24x7 Bureau
Now from within the BHP also voices are being raised, some silently and some tacitly supporting theĀ agitating wrestlers at Jantar Mantar. Some have loudly supported the demands for action on the basis of allegations and some have joined the chorus through non-political outfits.
Now it is , perhaps, time that theĀ BJP national leadership to takeĀ a call on the sensitive issues in which sexual outrage is concerned.
But his critics have been questioning Vij’s silence over the molestation charges against his Cabinet colleague Sandeep Singh by a junior coach.
“I have been a sports minister and completely support the players. The matter is being taken up at the highest level, but if I am required to talk to the higher-ups in the Centre, I will do that so that the issue could be resolved amicably,” Vij, who just returned from his tour of Australia, told the media in Ambala, his hometown.
A majority of the protesting wrestlers belong to Haryana. They have been staging a sit-in protest at the Jantar Mantar in Delhi where the Samyukta Kisan Morcha said a large number of farmers will gather in a show of solidarity.
It said several farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh will visit the protest site.
Ironically, BJP’s vocal leader Vij has been extending support to the wrestlers but why he’s preferring to keep mum on allegations against his Cabinet colleague. Sandeep Singh, who has been facing sexual harassment charges from the coach, asked a senior leader.
The coach in her complaint on December 31, 2022, had accused Sandeep Singh, then sports minister, of sexual harassment, stalking, threatening and outraging her modesty. Singh resigned from the sports portfolio, but continues to be a minister in the Khattar government’s cabinet.
Two days ago Sandeep Singh, who holds the Minister of State for Printing and Stationery, refused to give his consent for the lie-detector or polygraph test in the alleged molestation case.
The minister has submitted a detailed reply on the application filed by the Chandigarh Police seeking permission for conducting his lie-detector test or polygraph test.
