India’s hockey captain Rani Rampal slammed the casteist abuse against Vandana Katariya’s family, saying it’s high time discrimination on basis of religion and community was stopped.
Calling the abuse shameful, the captain took a stand against the slurs faced by a member of the team.
The Indian women’s team achieved their best ever Olympic performance at the Tokyo Games when they reached the semi-finals and narrowly missed out on the bronze medal. But after the loss in the semi-final the family of Vandana Katariya, who belongs to the Dalit community that has faced generations of discrimination, were faced with casteist abuse.
Katariya scored the first Olympic hat-trick by an Indian woman in a 4-3 victory over South Africa in the league stage.
Police said that a couple of men taunted the family at their Uttarakhand state home saying the Dalits in the team were to blame for the defeat. The family has said that threats were made too.
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