‘Bored with combating’: Shashi Tharoor reacts after Vinesh Phogat pronounces retirement | India Information

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday reacted to wrestler Vinesh Phogat‘s retirement, saying that the wrestler who was on the cusp of bringing glory, was a sufferer of being “caught within the system” and had worn out making an attempt to fend it off.
The 4 time Thiruvananthapuram MP, who on Wednesday stated Phogat didn’t need to be disqualified, took to X after the wrestler introduced that she was hanging her boots following the unlucky flip of occasions.In a publish on X, the Congress chief wrote, “this woman is caught on this system. This woman is uninterested in combating,” with a caption #SorryVinesh.
After her disqualification, Prime Minister Modi heaped reward for Vinesh Phogat as a “champion amongst champions” and exuded hope that she would come again stronger following her disqualification.
“Vinesh, you’re a champion amongst champions! You’re India’s satisfaction and an inspiration for every Indian. Right this moment’s setback hurts. I want phrases might categorical the sense of despair that I’m experiencing. On the similar time, I do know that you just epitomise resilience. It has at all times been your nature to take challenges head on,” Modi posted on X. “Come again stronger! We’re all rooting for you,” he added.

‘Sufferer of sports activities politics’
Nonetheless, the opposition has questioned the wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification and hit out on the Modi 3.0 authorities for making her the “fall woman”. The Congress claimed that Phogat had turn into a “sufferer of sports activities politics” and raised why Prime Minister Narendra Modi and different BJP ministers had been late to congratulate her, significantly given her efficiency of successful three in a stretch.
The Congress additionally didn’t maintain again from linking the developments to the protests in opposition to former Wrestling Federation of India head Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who’s dealing with trial over fees of sexual harassment and intimidation by ladies wrestlers.
“Vinesh Phogat didn’t lose on the mat of wrestling, however misplaced on the mat of conspiracy,” Congress chief Randeep Surjewala stated as he claimed that the wrestler was a sufferer of politics in sports activities.
After the sports activities minister responded in parliament on Vinesh Phogat, NCP(SCP) chief Supriya Sule additionally accused the sports activities minister of not directly blaming Vinesh to be obese and demanded a high-level probe in opposition to the help crew.
“The help crew was authorised by the federal government and IOA and needs to be held accountable. Mansukh Mandavia, the sports activities minister, justifying and defending the crew is absurd and disgusting, not directly blaming Vinesh to be obese. She is a proud daughter of India who made the finals in opposition to all odds and far to the chagrin of the powers that be. Is that this why she will get the blame and all the remaining go scot free?”, Sule stated.

AAP chief Sanjay Singh additionally demanded intervention from the Indian authorities and went as far as to say that the Olympics should be boycotted, “if the matter isn’t accepted.”

Phogat was disqualified from the Olympics after being discovered obese forward of her ladies’s 50kg ultimate. She was a win away from clinching India’s first gold medal on the Paris Olympics.