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Long jumper M Sreeshankar, who won the Arjuna Award, and kabaddi coach Edachery Bhaskaran, who was chosen for the Dronacharay Award, were the Keralites to gain recognition.
Three days after the WFI held its polls last month, the Ministry had suspended the sports body.
Senior Sports journalist Leslie Xavier joins News brake to discuss the issues within Wrestling Federation of India.
The WFI has maintained that it neither accepts the suspension nor does it recognise the ad-hoc panel that has been constituted by the Indian Olympic Association to manage the day-to-day affairs of the sport.
Loaded in buses, the junior wrestlers arrived from different parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, catching the police unaware.
They also approached the world governing body UWW, requesting its intervention for the restoration of the suspended WFI.
Phogat decided to return her Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award to the government, saying such honours have become meaningless at a time when wrestlers are struggling to get justice.
The wrestler left the awards in the middle of the Kartavya Path after Delhi Police stopped her from reaching the Prime Minister's Office.
The new WFI office is located in the Hari Nagar area of New Delhi.