Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been accused of sexually exploiting multiple Indian female wrestlers; learn about his age, family, brief bio, political career, children, and net worth in rupees
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is the current president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). He is also a BJP Member of Parliament (MP) from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh. Recently, the WFI’s president has been the centre of a new growing controversy, with allegations that he sexually abused several Indian female wrestlers.
WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh net worth in rupees in 2023, property and house
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh had informed in the year 2019 that he is the owner of a property worth about Rs 10 crore (9,89,05,402) and has a liability of more than 6 crores (6,15,24,735).
Brij Bhushan Singh owns movable and immovable assets worth Rs.40,185,787 crores. His wife is the owner of movable and immovable property worth Rs.63,444,541 crores.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh had informed that he has movable assets worth Rs 1,57,96,317 and his wife has movable assets worth Rs 2,54,44,541. He has immovable assets worth Rs 2,43,89,470 and his wife has immovable assets worth Rs 3,80,00,000.
Apart from this, Brij Bhushan and his wife have 4 vehicles and these include luxury vehicles like Mahindra Scorpio, Ford’s Endeavor and Fortuner. Bhushan has 50 grams of gold jewelry and his wife has 200 grams of gold jewelry.
Protests against the WFI head have been ongoing for the past few days. Many notable wrestlers, including Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sumit Malik, Sakshi Malik, and Sumit Malik, took part in the protest. These wrestlers allege Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and several other national coaches at the national camp in Lucknow sexually exploited Indian female wrestlers.
India's top wrestlers – Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, & Vinesh Phogat – are now sitting on dharna in an unprecedented protest against the Wrestling Federation of India, controlled by BJP MP. Grave allegations of sexual harassment & mental torture have been made.#Vineshphogat pic.twitter.com/0cFRJSAa4v
— Vishal Chaudhary🇮🇳 (@VishalcINC) January 19, 2023
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur met with the wrestlers at his residence in Delhi, requesting Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh quit as WFI president. The Ministry of Sports has now organized a committee, and an inquiry into the claims is underway. In this article, we’ll have a close look at the brief bio of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s brief bio
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, 66, was born on January 8, 1957, in the Uttar Pradesh district of Gonda to Sh. Jagdamba Sharan and Pyari Devi Singh. He is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). He is also a prominent BJP politician, having served as a member of the Gonda, Kaiserganj, and Balarampur constituencies six times.
Political career
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh had been active in politics since his youth in the 1980s. He rose to prominence during the Ram Mandir campaign in Ayodhya as a result of his strong ‘Hindutva’ image at the time. He ran for election for the first time in 1991 and was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha. He was re-elected as MP in 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019.
However, he joined the BJP ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and has since contested on BJP tickets. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was elected as a Member of Parliament for the sixth time in 2019 and currently represents the Kaiserganj constituency. He has been involved in various controversies and was one of the accused in the Babri demolition case.
For more than a decade, he has served as President of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). He was accused of sexual harassment by Indian female wrestlers in January 2023.
Family
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is married to Ketki Devi Singh, a politician and Zila panchayat chairman from the Gonda constituency. The couple married on July 3, 1958, and has three children, two sons and one daughter.
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