Wrestler Sakshi Malik claims Haryana government failed to fulfil promises made after her Olympic win
In a series of tweets, she questioned whether the state administration’s declarations were ‘only for the media’.
Olympic bronze medal-winning wrestler Sakshi Malik on Saturday took to Twitter to criticise the Haryana government for not delivering on publicly-made promises to reward her success at the 2016 Rio Games. While she thanked the Manohar Lal Khattar-led administration for its “monetary appreciation” in a series of tweets, the 24-year-old claimed that other pledges they made remain unfulfilled.
“Medal ka vada maine pura kiya, Haryana sarkar apna vada kab pura karegi? (I fulfilled my promise of winning an Olympic medal for the country, when will the Haryana government fulfil its promises?),” Malik said, tagging Union Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Vijay Goel in her tweets, as well. The wrestler also questioned whether all the promises made were “only for the media”.
The Haryana administration had announced a Rs 2.5-crore reward as well as a government job after Malik’s win at the Olympics. Her father Sukhbir Malik told ANI, “It is not about the 2.5 crore rupees we got, it is about the other promises they made, including building a stadium in our village.”
The state government had also declared that she would be appointed the wrestling director at Maharshi Dayanand University in her home town, Rohtak. Haryana Anil Vij told the news agency that they had created the post for her after she had demanded a job at the university.