Tokyo: Skipper Indian Women’s Hockey Team Ranpal on Saturday condemned the alleged abuse that his team’s partner’s family Vandana Katariya faced, said that it did not lack embarrassing.
The Katariya family, who scored four goals during the Olympics, found himself at the end of the Casteist recipient delivered several people in their neighborhood in Haridwar after the team lost the semi-final clash against Argentina on Wednesday.
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“The bad thing has happened.
We work very hard to represent our country.
Stop all of these things such as discriminating religion, cashiers because we work on all these things,” Rani said during a virtual press conference.
India finished fourth in the match after going down to the United Kingdom 3-4 in an intense bronze play-off.
“We are from various parts of India, follow various religions.
But when we come here we work together for India.
Very embarrassing when we see people who spoil such behavior,” Rani said.
“But there are also people who have given us so much love even though we don’t win medals.
So they have to learn from people like that.
If we want to make Indian nation hockey, we need everyone,” he added.
Two men were reported to dance and exploded firecrackers outside the Katariya’s house in the area of ​​Haridwar Roshnabad in the cue of ridicule.
When several Katariya family members came out listening to the noise, the two men also passed Casteist’s comments on them, said the team had lost because there were too many Dalit players in it, according to local officials.
The 29-year-old striker scored a hat-trick against South Africa in the Olympic group stage, became the first of the country to achieve that achievement.
Rani hopes people will learn from this incident and things like that will not happen in the future.
“That’s a bad thing, it shouldn’t happen maybe they will study in the future not to do things like that.”