File photograph of Sakshi Malik (L) and Vinesh Phogat© AFP
Vinesh Phogat responded to allegations from Sakshi Malik that the protest towards former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh developed cracks when “folks near” Vinesh started to fill her thoughts with “greed”. Sakshi additionally alleged that Vinesh and Bajrang Punia’s determination to just accept exemption from Asian Video games trails additionally tarnished the picture of the protests. Nonetheless, Vinesh dismissed any such speculations and mentioned that they fought for a superb trigger earlier than including that if talking up for athletes is “greed”, then she’s going to proceed to have such “greed”.
“Nobody gave me something in writing, nor can I assume somebody’s intentions. The nice factor is that we fought for a superb trigger. If enjoying within the Olympics and profitable a medal for our nation is greed, then sure, I’ll carry that ‘greed’ until my final breath. What precisely is greed? If, as an athlete, talking up for fellow athletes and standing by my sisters is greed, then I take into account it a superb form of greed. The will to play for the nation ought to at all times stay,” Phogat informed ANI.
Sakshi, who was one of many three outstanding faces of the extended protest, made this assertion in her recently-released e-book ‘Witness’.
“The previous mind-set selfishly was taking up as soon as once more. The folks near Bajrang and Vinesh had began filling their minds with greed. Now they had been speaking about this exemption from trials for the Video games,” Sakshi wrote within the e-book co-authored with journalist Jonathan Selvaraj however didn’t give names of those that influenced the duo.
“…Nothing good got here of Bajrang and Vinesh’s determination to take the exemption…their determination badly harm the picture of our protest. It put us in a state of affairs the place many supporters began to suppose that we had been really within the protest for egocentric causes,” the 32-year-old mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
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