Throw shoe at Chidambaram
Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ducked a shoe thrown by a journalist at a press conference here. ( WatchShoe hurled at home minister Shoe hurled at home minister P Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi. (AFP Photo)
Chidambaram was replying to a question posed by a Sikh journalist on the Central Bureau of Investigation's
(CBI) clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The shoe missed Palaniappan Chidambaram, who leaned back to avoid it. He later smiled and asked security guards to take the reporter out of the room.
"Please take him away," the minister said after the missile was thrown at him. Congress party workers immediately took the white turbaned journalist away.
The irate journalist, Jarnail Singh, who threw the shoe, has justified his action. Singh works at Hindi daily Dainik Jagran.
As the action caused a flutter in the hall, a composed Chidambaram appealed to the reporters, "let not the action of one emotional person hijack the entire press conference. I have answered his questions to the best of my ability."
Responding to a question on the clean chit to Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Chidambaram said, "First of all let me make it clear that CBI is not under the home ministry. To my knowledge neither the mome ministry nor any ministry of the government had put any pressure on the CBI."
"CBI has only given a report to the court. It is for the court to accept or reject or ask for further investigation by CBI. Let us wait for the court decision," he said.
As the journalist persisted with his questions, Chidambaram told him "no arguments, you are using this forum..." following which the journalist hurled his shoe.
An unapologetic Singh said he will not apologise for his action, though his manner of protest might have been wrong.
"My manner of protest might have been wrong, but I did not intend to hurt anyone," he said.
Asked if he could have used some other manner to protest, he said, "for the last 25 years this has been happening. So what other method is left (to protest)".
Earlier this month, CBI had given a clean chit to 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Tytler and sought permission from the court for the closure of the case against the Congress leader.
This was the latest incident of show-throwing as a mark of protest against political leaders, including former US President George W Bush and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
The Iraqi journalist who shot to worldwide fame for hurling his shoes at Bush last year was jailed for three years earlier this month.
Chiidambaram had called the press briefing to launch a Congress party report on countering terrorism ahead of the general election that begins April 16.
News Is Taken From timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
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