Journalist throws shoe at Indian official

What about VARUN ?? He is vomitting hate and venom against SIKHS....so much so that lallu the Railway Minister wanted to crush him under a Road Roller and damn the consequences ??..BUT SIKHS are all quiet about him ?? Double Standards ??why ??
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All three threads on this topic merged into one. please be informed. Thank you.

Varun Gandhi's speeches came in the form Of Cds and they yet to be authenticated by
forensic laboratory.We all know about the technology available today.There is no way we can compare Varun with Tytler,sajjan who are known killers of sikhs.ACtions speak louder than words

Is this it? Is this the final sign (if ever it was needed) that India does not deliver justice?
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Nearly 25 years and this is what we get?

Justice is very hard to obtain in India and in such type of crime's nearly impossible.Law has many loopholes and the worst thing is that Delhi sikh Gurdwara committe itself is a soldout
to congress

source: Shoe-attack: What the other parties say - The Financial Express#

Shoe-attack: What the other parties say

Express news service - Financial Express
Posted online: Apr 08, 2009 at 1106 hrs


New DelhiCommunist Party of India (Marxist)

The CPI(M), which could not hide its glee when George W Bush was attacked with a shoe, on Tuesday fumbled for a response when it came to reacting to its Indian variant. At best, the party could say that the journalist’s mode of protest was “inappropriate”.



“In a democracy, people have the freedom to express their protest. This may be one way of expressing it. Now let the law take its own course,” CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said reacting to the Chidambaram shoe-throwing incident. When prodded further, he admitted that the mode of protest was “inappropriate”. “We feel it is not the way to be done. You tell me now. He is from your fraternity,” he shot back.



Yechury’s response to an Iraqi journalist throwing a shoe at former President Bush is a study in contrasts. “It should have happened earlier. It shows the level of anger and anguish people all over the world have against the US president, which our Prime Minister does not understand,” he had said then.


On the issue of the CBI giving a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler, Yechury said “as we have been saying all along, the CBI is used by the party in power for various agendas.”



CPM’s Prakash Karat said,”There is anger among the Sikh community... Obviously there is some anger against Congress for giving the ticket to a leader alleged to have been involved in the anti-Sikh riots.”




Bharatiya Janata Party

BJP spokesperson Balbir Punj: “We condemn this uncivilised act, but we also feel that this should act as an eye-opener for Congress. For, it shows the deep-rooted hurt over the gross injustice meted out to the Sikhs, even after 25 years of the riots, which killed more than 4,000 people.” “Both Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler should be withdrawn from the elections,” said another BJP spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh.




Samajwadi Party

Amar Singh: “The wounds of the anti-Sikh riots are yet to heal”, Singh remarked and without naming the Tytler case cast doubts on the CBI’s neutrality. “I don’t believe that the CBI is neutral. When we were not in government it was used against us,” he said.




Janata Dal (United)

JD(U) general secretary Javed Raza termed the incident “unfortunate,” but said it underlined the deep sense of hurt in the Sikh community over the manner in which the 1984 riot cases had been handled by the UPA regime. He said the clean chit given to Congress leaders Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler ahead of the elections had obviously led to the attack, which should serve as an eye-opener for the ruling party.




Nationalist Congress Party

NCP general secretary Akhtar Hasan Rizvi defended the Congress and gave a clean chit to the party over fielding Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar. “The anti-Sikh riots issue is being used with political motives by those opposed to the Congress. If the CBI did not find any evidence against Tytler then what is wrong in fielding him? If both Tytler and Sajjan Kumar contested and won the elections in 2004 then why is such a hue and cry being raised now?”
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Amar Singh: “The wounds of the anti-Sikh riots are yet to heal”, Singh remarked and without naming the Tytler case cast doubts on the CBI’s neutrality. “I don’t believe that the CBI is neutral. When we were not in government it was used against us,” he said.
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What about the widow's colony? What about the movie where voiced protest of widows was dubbed out? What about months of pussy-footing around in the Tytler hearings? What about the witnesses that caved?

My point is how long do you wait for justice. Justice delayed is justice denied. When the matter is treated as if it is necessary to apply justice in the abstract of course someone is going to throw something. That is really a restrained reaction.

Yes throwing shoes is kind of ineffective -- but Congress could at least try to sound as if there is empathy for thousands of people for whom justice feels frustrated. Just my 2 cents! I don't even life in India.

Calling Me Akali Member is Laughable: Jarnail Singh


New Delhi - April 8, 2009

Jarnail Singh, the journalist who lobbed a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram, has said that it was 'laughable' that politicians were linking him with Akali Dal, instead of addressing the issue of justice to the victims of the mindless anti-Sikh violence of 1984.

The journalist had come into focus after he hurled a shoe at Chidambaram during a press conference yesterday, to protest against the CBI's clean chit to senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Earlier in the day, Tytler had called Jarnail Singh an Akali Dal member.

"Some politician have called me an Akali Dal activist. It is only laughable. I have no affiliation or membership of any political party. I am a neutral journalist and am proud of my neutrality," said Jarnail Singh.

"Politicians are making senseless allegations against me and my political affiliation. I have made it clear that I am not against any political party, including the Congress.

"Politicians should concentrate on the issue of justice to the Sikh community instead of trying to politicise my protest," Singh said.

Referring to the Nanavati Commission that indicted Tytler and other Congress leaders for the anti-Sikh riots, Jarnail Singh said that the Sikh community was ready to accept the apology of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, AICC president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi after the commission had submitted its report.
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"But this clean chit and the Lok Sabha nomination is only reminding the Sikh community of the atrocity perpetrated on it in 1984 and even after waiting patiently for the last two-and-a-half-decade. Justice has not been done," he said.

Stating that the Sikh community was ready to forget the riots, provided justice was delivered for the victims. "There is not even symbolism to show that justice is being done to the victims," he said.

On the cash awards and jobs being offered to him after yesterday's shoe-pelting incident, the journalist said the political parties were only trying to cash in on the episode by politicising it.

"Instead, they should offer help to the poor victims by hiring good lawyers for them and providing jobs to their families. I humbly refuse to accept these cash awards," he said.

Regarding Sikh groups planning protests holding shoes, Jarnail Singh appealed to them not to indulge in such acts, but to hold their protests peacefully.

Thanking Chidambaram for showing understanding to his emotional outburst, the journalist said that he did not intend to hurt anybody and that was why he just lobbed his shoe to the vacant spot beside the Minister.

"I did not throw the shoe. I only lobbed it, that too away from Chidambaram. As a journalist, I regret the way I protested. But I reiterate that the issue I raised was just," he said.

Stating that he was pained that politicians were trying to take advantage of his protest, Jarnail Singh said that he was against violence and appealed to the government to bring in a legislation against communal violence on the lines of the anti-terror law.

Noting that the Sikh community had come a long way since the 1984 riots, Jarnail Singh said that it would not be sensible for the government if the scar of injustice meted out to the victims continued to remain in the community's heart.

"The government should understand that injustice done even 5,000 years ago can still cause hurt and wound in the hearts of the people living today. The issues are emotional in nature and the government should consider delivering justice to heal those wounds," he added.
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news.outlookindia.com | Calling Me Akali Member is Laughable: Jarnail Singh

Journo wanted to provoke, not to hurt me: Chidambaram

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who was the target of a Sikh journalist's ire on Tuesday on the issue of CBI clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in anti-Sikh riots cases, said on Wednesday that he thought the scribe intended to provoke him and not hurt him.

He said it was for the party to decide whether it should give ticket to Tytler and he cannot comment because he "is neither the minister-in-charge nor the judge."
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"I cannot pronounce anybody guilty or innocent," he said when asked by a TV channel whether it was proper for the party to give tickets to people like Tytler against whom questions have been raised.

"No, not at all. I don't think he intended to hurt me. He intended to provoke me. Why should I be provoked," he said in reply to a question whether he was scared by Tuesday's incident.
He also said that he did not expect the journalist to apologise to him personally as he has apologised and his employer called up to apologise. "I don't expect any further apology."

Asked if he felt that the journalist's action would rapture relations between media and politicians, the minister said "why, no, not at all. I think it was an emotional outburst by one journalist and I think we should allow it to rest."


To another question if this incident merited enhanced security for him, Chidambaram shot back saying "one PSO is one too many." Asked if he was sure, he said "hundred per cent sure."