Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh – Wiki, Bio, Age, Wife, Family & More

• Opposing Raj Thackeray’s Ayodhya visit 
In May 2022, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh publicly urged the Indian politician Raj Thackeray to apologise for misbehaving with North Indians. Reportedly, in 2008, several people were beaten up by Thackeray’s workers as they forced them to leave Mumbai because of their northern ethnicity. Thackeray led rallies in which he urged Yogi Adityanath to not meet Thackeray until he apologises.
“I will not allow Raj Thackeray, who humiliates North Indians, to enter Ayodhya. Before coming to Ayodhya, Raj Thackeray must apologise to all North Indians with folded hands. Unless Raj Thackeray publicly apologises, I request Chief Minister Shri Yogi Adityanath that he should not meet Raj Thackeray. RSS, VHP, and the common man played a role in the Ram temple movement. The Thackeray family has nothing to do with it.”

• Inappropriate comments on political leaders
In 2022, Brij Bhushan alleged that Rizwan Khan, a Samajwadi Party leader, and Mahfuz Khan, former Member of the Legislative Council, were Hindus. He also commented on Arvind Kejriwal that he was a crazy and clever man. While he was calling out people including Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM President), Brij talked about Yogi Adityanath and remarked that he was a child of Lord Ram.

• Arrested for harbouring Dawood Ibrahim’s henchmen
Bhushan Singh was arrested in the mid-1990s under Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) for allegedly aiding the henchmen of Dawood Ibrahim.

• “Don of all dons, murderer, wrestling reformer”
Brij Bhushan’s video got viral in which he admitted of murdering former Uttar Pradesh minister Vinod Kumar Singh. In 2022, Singh and three of his associates were acquitted from this murder case. Reportedly, Brij Bhushan was accompanied by Devdutt Singh, Gyan Singh, and Deep Narayan Yadav when an open fire was made on Vinod Kumar outside his house in Nawabganj, Uttar Pradesh; however, Brij Bhushan denied the allegations by saying he was in Delhi at the time of the attack.

• Wrestlers protest against Brij Bhushan Singh
On 18 January 2023, Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat held a sit-in protest against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Phogat alleged that the WFI officials and coaches were harassing women. She also made allegations against the WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for sexually harassing many girls. She said,
“Some coaches who are favourites of the federation misbehave with women coaches as well. They sexually harass girls. The WFI president has sexually harassed so many girls.”
Later, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh denied the allegations and said that there was no incident of sexual harassment. He also questioned why the protesting wrestlers never approached the federation for the past ten years and said that he would hang himself if the allegations will be proved true. Mr. Sharan Singh quoted,
“If such a thing has happened, then I will hang myself.” In April 2023, some sources quoted that the accusations against him could not be proved.  On 23 April 2023, the wrestles again sat on protest at Jantar Mantar, demanding a case of sexual harassment to be registered against Brij Bhushan. The wrestlers claimed that the promises that were made to them were not held up and their demands had not been fulfilled despite assurances.  On 25 April 2023, seven wrestlers moved the Supreme Court, seeking FIR against Brij Bhushan, following which the apex court issued notice to Delhi police and asked the Delhi police to respond as to why FIR be not registered against Brij Bhushan. On 28 April 2023, the Delhi Police registered two FIRs against Brij Bhushan; one FIR was related to allegations of a minor wrestler which was registered under the POCSO Act, while the second FIR was based on the complaints of the women wrestlers. Brij Bhushan’s close aide and the federation’s assistant secretary Vinod Tomar was also named in the FIRs. Following the FIR against him, Brij Bhushan called the protesters a stooge in the hands of the Congress and said that Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda and wrestler Bajrang Punia hatched a conspiracy against him. Mr. Singh also alleged that one of the key reasons behind the protests was the Phogat family wanted to take over the wrestling body. In the second leg of the wrestlers’ protest, many politicians including Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, AAP ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj, and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi visited the protest site; Pappu Yadav and Satya Pal Malik also visited the site. On 12 May 2023, he was officially ousted from the post of WFI President after the IOA, through a letter, asked the secretary general of WFI to hand over the official documents including financial instruments to its ad-hoc panel. The IOA’s three-member ad-hoc committee announced that the new president will be elected within the 45-day time frame. On 25 June 2023, wrestlers called of their protest and decided to battle it out in court. On 18 July 2023, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court granted him interim bail for two days. On 20 July 2023, Rouse Avenue Court granted him regular bail.On 23 September 2023, during a hearing at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court, Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava, who was representing the Delhi police, asserted that Brij Bhushan was fully aware of his actions, with the intention to outrage the modesty of the wrestlers. Srivastava claimed that there were three evidences against Bhushan which included a written complaint and two recorded statements conducted under Sections 161 (witness examination by the police) and 164 (statements recorded by a Magistrate) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). According to Srivastava, these evidence were enough to frame charges against Bhushan. Srivastava further claimed that Bhushan had committed these offenses at various locations outside of Delhi. He added that Bhushan had committed offences whenever the opportunity arose.

Daughter– 1

Note: Shakti Sharan Singh died after committing suicide by shooting himself with one of Bhushan’s licensed weapons at their ancestral home in Gonda on 17 June 2004.

Note: The given estimates of movable and immovable assets are according to the year 2019. It excludes the assets owned by his wife and dependents (minor).