Manu Bhaker also slammed media for sensationalising the issue.
Manu Bhaker poses with the Gold medal after winning the women's 10m air pistol competition at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games at the Belmont Shooting Complex in Brisbane on April 8, 2018. (Photo: AFP PHOTO / Patrick HAMILTON)
The teenaged shooting sensation, Manu Bhaker, who won the gold medal in the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Australia, was subjected to some serious insult during a felicitation ceremony in Haryana.
As per the reports in media, on her return from CWG games, Manu Bhaker was felicitated at Charkhi Dadri and during the ceremony, when VVIPs arrived, she was made to sit on the floor.
However, while talking to Times of India, Manu Bhaker clarified that it was her own decision to sit on the floor.
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“I have not been insulted. My village elders came and I stood up. What does a normal person do when they meet their elders? Do they keep sitting? If I sat in front of them on the ground, I did nothing wrong,” Bhaker told TOI.
Hey @TimesNow Here is Gold Medalist Manu Bhaker’s response, She herself choses to sit on ground to give sheet to elders. Hope you’ll stop your nonsense. pic.twitter.com/AzBsz0E1IA
— संवैधानिक डकैत (@Shivam_h9) April 17, 2018
Manu Bhaker also slammed media for sensationalising the issue.
“Why do journalists go to any extent to create a sensational news? This I believe they do when they can’t get a story. Such type of wrong propaganda should be stopped,” Bhaker added.
Manu Bhaker’s father Ramkishan Bhaker was also upset with the issue and with the way media presented it.
“Such reporting should be banned. We give respect to our elders and this is what my daughter has done too. She was not insulted. Don’t add misery to what she has got for this country. Learn to respect your elders like Manu does. Salute her and don’t point fingers at her or the people who felicitated her,” Ramkishan Bhaker said.
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