The BJP Member of Parliament (MP) and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a well known history-sheeter, muscleman and goon found himself earlier this year pinned down to the mat after several women wrestlers came out accusing him of sexual harassment. He is an influential MP from the State of UP from BJP, our "Sanskari" political party with a difference, which leaves no stone unturned preaching ethics and morality.
Now yesterday's election of Brij Bhushan Singh's aide Sanjay Singh to the post of Wrestling Federation of India has prompted Olympic medal winner Sakshi Malik to quit the sport. In a press conference, the champion wrestler put her shoe on the table to show her protest and later cried on camera. Reacting to Sanjay Singh's election to the body that controls wrestling in India, BJP MP Brij Bhushan assured there won't be any vendetta politics against wrestlers who accused him of sexual harassment or protest to demand his removal as the WFI chief.
The widespread protest held during last summer against the accused sexual molester had been brewing for a while and is supported by India’s top women wrestlers, including Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik. Those agitating, sitting on "Dharna", many of them young girls who accused Brij Bhushan of molesting them had campaigned day and night in Delhi's "Jantar Mantar", facing the summer heat and heat from vested interests trying to silence their voice by threatening them.
It is astounding that the BJP led government at the center, party leaders and its supporters are conspicuously silent on this. Being a member of RSS and VHP he is probably a "Sanskari" (cultured) rapist. Mainstream media and the authorities slept for a while before social media picked up the cause, women organizations stepped in and the protest started gaining enough steam to get noticed.
Ironically a campaign named "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" (Save the daughter, Educate the Daughter) was inaugurated on January 22, 2015, by Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi who is the undisputed leader of BJP. It also exposes the hypocrisy of the Bhakts (a term ascribed to the blind supporters of Modi, BJP and RSS) who lose no opportunity to proclaim BJP as a party which respects women and proudly boast about women's safety. This incident is a tight slap on their face. Their silence isn't golden, rather speaks volume. The vociferous Bhakts on social media now have their mouth sealed and gone into hibernation with their tails well tucked behind their hind legs.
With due respect to them here is my message to Bhakts - you may think "Caesar's wife is above suspicion", but BJP is no lily white. It is just another political party. The party is now in power for quite some time at the center and several states. Power leads to corruption and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We are now just beginning to see the symptoms of a disease called power.
BJP has its political compulsions. Brij Bhushan is a powerful "Bahubali" (Don) of the politically important state of UP which is the the state that supplies maximum number of MPs to the Parliament. The Bahubalis control a good chunk of votes in the badlands of the North India's cowbelt and no political party, BJP or otherwise, can afford to piss them off when the Election is just round the corner.
And to add some pun by a friend on social media espoused by some Bhakts -
"Women wrestlers are quite capable of thrashing Brij Bhushan if he had attempted to molest/ paw them, THEREFORE as per bhakt, since the female wrestlers did not thrash Brij Bhushan, so he is innocent !
God bless Bhakts.
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