KTR slams Centre on manhandling of protesting wrestlers by cops

Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister and Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao on Monday slammed the Center after protesting wrestlers were manhandled by the Delhi Police and detained at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

Several wrestlers have been staging a sit-in protest demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh accusing him of sexually harassing several female wrestlers.

Condemning the way the wrestlers were treated, the minister took to Twitter stating, “Can any responsible leader from govt of India tell us why it has to be this way?”