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| Sikh journalist hurls shoe at Indian home minister |
| 2009-04-08 |
| An angry Sikh journalist attending a Congress press conference on Tuesday hurled a shoe at Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, in an echo of the attack on former US president George Bush in Iraq last year. It's already old, Bubby. It was old the second time it happened. This is, what? The 29th? Chidambaram ducked as the trainer flew past him, but remained calm and pardoned the journalist for his emotional response. Had more dignity than Shoe Boy, apprently. Jarnail Singh, the journalist, was angered by the minister's response to former Congress minister Jagdish Tytler being absolved of all involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by the Central Bureau of Investigation. "My manner of protest might have been wrong, but I did not intend to hurt anyone," AFP quoted Singh as saying when he was detained by police before being released without charge. The Shiromani Akali Dal announced Rs 200,000 for Singh as a reward for having the courage to display the Sikhs' pain and suffering. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It may be old but it has had en effect like none previously. Trains in the Punjab are stopped as people sit on the tracks. There is genuine anger and the Congress looks set to lose parliamentary seats. They are looking at dumping Tytler from their ticket. They've been making hay for years about the Hindu nationalists and Gujarat, but silent about their own pogrom, with its far greater death toll. Now it has come back to bite them. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-08 07:16 |