India's Wrestlers Protest by Tossing Medals into Ganges.

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India's Wrestlers Protest by Tossing Medals into Ganges.
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India's top wrestlers have announced that they will throw their medals into the Ganges, the country's holiest river, as part of their ongoing protest against the chief of the wrestling federation, whom they accuse of sexually harassing female wrestlers for years. They also plan to go on an indefinite hunger strike at India Gate in Delhi. The wrestlers have been demanding the resignation and arrest of the federation chief, who has denied the allegations. Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia and two-time World Champion medallist Vinesh Phogat are among the protesters.

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