WFI Sexual Harassment Case: Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been at the center of the ongoing protest led by star wrestlers at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. Serious allegations including corruption and sexual harassment were leveled against Singh by top players.
Triple Commonwealth Games medalist Vinesh Phogat with top wrestlers including Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Bajrang Punia, Rio Olympics medalist Sakshi Malik, World Championship medalists Sarita Mor, Sangeeta Phogat, Satyawart Malik, Jitendra Kinha and CWG medalists The winners include Sumit Malik. Did and protested against the federation. Despite strong outcry against the WFI president, he did not resign and claimed that there was a conspiracy against him. Now the question is who is Brij Bhushan Sharan and why is there delay in action against him? Perhaps his political background is the shield. He is a heavyweight politician from Uttar Pradesh.
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Here are the special things related to Singh
- Singh has been in charge of the WFI for nearly a decade. The 66-year-old was elected unopposed as the WFI President for the third time in 2019.
- He started his career in student politics in the 1980s and joined the BJP in 1988. During the Ram Mandir movement, he grabbed headlines for his aggressive campaigns.
- Singh’s name figured in the Babri Masjid demolition case along with veteran BJP leader LK Advani.
- According to myneta.info site, he has assets worth around Rs 10 crore.
- Singh is a six-time Member of Parliament and currently represents Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh.
- In 1991, he was elected as a Lok Sabha MP from the Gonda constituency of UP on a BJP ticket.
- He was named in several criminal cases. One charge pertained to causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender (IPC Section-201) and one charge relating to dacoity (IPC Section-395) – ADR data.
- Before the assembly elections in 2021, he hired a helicopter for campaigning at the rate of Rs 85,000 crore per hour.
- As per media reports, he later bought a helicopter, becoming perhaps the few politicians to own a private chopper.
- He got into a controversy in 2021 after slapping a wrestler on the stage during the first round of the Under-15 National Wrestling Championship at the Shaheed Ganpat Rai Indoor Stadium.
- Singh was re-elected from Gonda constituency in 1999. In 2004, he was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Balrampur constituency.
- In July 2008, Singh joined the Samajwadi Party and was elected from the Kaiserganj constituency in 2009.
- Later, he rejoined the BJP months before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.