"Wait For Probe To End": Minister To Wrestlers As Protests Intensify | Read

Union sports minister Anurag Thakur today accused the protesting wrestlers of "changing goalposts" and in the government's first comment on the issue in recent days, reiterated that they should not take any step that "hurts the sport or other athletes". "The athletes themselves had said that the platform is not for doing politics. But later political parties came and went and shared this platform," the minister told reporters today, referring to the visits by opposition leaders to the wrestlers' protest site in Delhi's Jantar Mantar.