Haryana govt should take up wrestlers' issue with Centre: Hooda

Press Trust of India 

Chandigarh

Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday said the BJP-led Haryana government should not sit like a "mute spectator" on the wrestlers' issue and take up the matter with the Centre.

Addressing a press conference here, the former Haryana chief minister said the wrestlers have brought laurels for the country, but have not been given justice in the matter they have been raising.

"The wrestlers who have brought laurels for the country have not been given justice in the matter. The fact that these wrestlers were forced to contemplate to immerse their medals in the Ganga river is shameful for the country. These players represent the country and I too had appealed to them not to immerse their medals," Hooda said.

Asked about his family being targeted in the past by outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on the wrestlers' issue.