New Delhi: Indian wrestler Divya Kakran, on Friday, defeated Tiger Lily Cocker Lemalie 2-0 to win the bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Kakran had already earned a bronze medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, making this her second medal overall. The wrestler placed third in the 68kg division at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta-Palmberg and has two gold medals to her record from the Asian Championships. 
In her strongly worded tweet Kakran wrote, “Thank you for congratulating me on my medal victory, respected CM sir. I’m living in Delhi for the past 20 years and doing my wrestling practice here, but I haven’t received any prize money from the state government, nor did I receive any help. @Arvind Kejriwal.”
“I request you that I should also be treated similarly as Delhi-born wrestlers who are honored despite representing other states.”
In addition, Kakran also shared a video from 2018, when she had made a similar request to the Delhi chief minister during the felicitation ceremony following the contingent’s return from CWG success in Gold Coast.
“It seems history is repeating itself. Nothing has changed. No one did anything for me then and it remains the same now,” Kakran wrote as she shared the video.
