Protest at Jantar Mantar
The ongoing protest of wrestlers, which includes some of our Olympic medal winners, highlights an inexplicable lack of political will among the top leaders of the country to take action when “sexual harassment” allegations are made by athletes or even other women. When the wrestlers protested for the first time this January, the government ought to have taken tangible actions against the complaints. Instead, the government went into ‘silent mode’. If the intention is not to save a few bad apples, it is not clear why the government needs to shy away from making the findings of the “oversight committee” public. The registration of FIRs (Page 1, “Delhi Police register two FIRs in wrestlers’ case”, April 29) after the top court’s much-needed intervention, should have offered a ray of hope to the wrestlers. It remains to be seen how long this protest is going to sustain its momentum, given the inertia of the government.
A. Venkatasubramanian,
