Imphal, Oct 22 (MNS/NNN) : Olympic Games bronze medalist M.C.Mary Kom has clarified that she had never made any comment against the media in Manipur. On Monday, while refuting the report Mary Kom has threatened that she would take up legal actions on the Mizoram based journalists for publishing fabricated statements which she had never mentioned it.
Addressing newsmen at Manipur Press Club here on the much-hyped story, Mary Kom further clarified that she had never made any comment of discrimination meted out on her by Manipur media as reported in some sections of the media.
Mary Kom said she had shared the emptiness and incomplete feelings which she felt during her last Olympic bout while adding that after winning the bronze medal, when the national media were packed at her house and village, few of the local media were seen.
Mary Kom said, she could not had exclusive interaction with the local media because of her tight schedules and added that she respects the media fraternity AMWJU for giving her a chance to clarify on the matter.
Regarding the reported communally inclined statement attributed to her, Mary Kom said, “I did not say the term ‘Meitei dominated’ as mentioned in some sections of the media.” The pugilist then added, “Of coure, there were times I used to be discouraged of my being from a minority group of people but this did not mean that I was discriminated as the fact remains that all of my mentors and coaches were Meiteis, not a Kom or any tribal. The boxing academy that I run accommodate students from different communities of Manipur which has no limit to cultures and beliefs, tongues and colours.”
“(At the Aizawl press meet when asked by the media) on the trial selections at federation level and the controversy that had captured the media once with L. Sarita, I expressed my straight away feeling that I was very much disappointed when my consent was not asked before it got published as being a sensitive issue but totally relied on a single-sided view. It was even mentioned that the federation was bribed for my selection to the Asian Games, lest, I kept quiet thinking the truth will be revealed one day. It was an individual issue between me and Sarita, not with the Meiteis. Sarita was my best friend and she is still my friend,” Mary Kom clarifies.
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