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Not too far away, the 'Jana Gana Mana' site of the new Parliament Building was being inaugurated around the same time the Delhi Police were doing their job of clearing what the central government would go on to describe as being an act of 'deliberate provocation'..
Removing agitators protesting against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and demanding his arrest for alleged sexual harassment of women wrestlers, was part of a hygiene exercise in the same vein as removing that embarrassing ex of the bride who has gatecrashed and is drunk and creating a scene at the wedding reception...
Vinesh and Sangeeta Phogat locked in a unwrestlers' protective embrace on the ground with an Indian flag fallen next to them and a tan coloured shoe and police trousers visible in the frame...
Don't take part in any anti-national activity; today is a proud moment for the country that the new Parliament building is being inaugurated,' a police vehicle arriving at the spot announced over a loudspeaker...
Less than three kilometres away, WFI chief and the man who may not be considered antinational, but is certainly being identified as being anti-women, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, waving into the camera with a smile and with the new Parliament Building about to be inaugurated behind him..
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