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Punjab police seize four kilograms of heroin

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Amritsar, Sep 1 (ANI): Sleuths of Special Operation Cell (SOC) of Punjab have seized on Monday four kilograms of heroin estimated to be worth around rupees 200 million rupees in the international market and also arrested five men.

This was disclosed by P K Rai, Senior Superintendent of Police, Special Operation Cell, (SOC), Punjab.

Acting on a tip off, the police arrested Amanpreet Singh, Sandeep Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Jarnail Singh and Tehal Singh when they were going to deliver the consignment of heroin to a drug runner.owever, one of their accomplices Gulsaab Singh managed to give a slip to the raiding posse of policemen.

P K Rai revealed that apart from heroin, they also recovered a Maruti Alto and Splendour motorcycle from them.

The Special Operation Cell also registered a case under sections 21/25/29/61/85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic (NDPS) Act of 1985 and filed FIR (First Information Report) vis-à-vis the seizure.

Drug seizures are often reported from Punjab, bordering Pakistan, and narcotics agencies say the border state is a major route for drug supply to the West from Afghanistan-Pakistan region.eroin is derived from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. It usually appears as a white or brown powder. (ANI)

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Sikh groups to observe 25 years of Operation Blue Star

May 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Amritsar, May 24 (ANI): Various Sikh organisations have decided to observe the 25 years of Operation Blue Star as the Martyrs’ Day in the first week of June in remembrance of Indian Army’s action at the Golden temple to evict extremists hidden inside.

President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), Parmjit Singh Sarna, on Sunday said that they would observe the completion of 25 years of Operation Blue Star as they observed other days of the Sikh martyrs.

Talking about the recent statement of Prime Minster Dr. Manmohan Singh on 1984 anti Sikh riots, Sarna blamed media for distorting his statement, which actually meant that the political parties should not exploit these issues for their vested interests.

American Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (AGPC) would also observe the 25th anniversary of Operation Blue Star by conducting a number of public programs in various Gurdwara situated in USA.

“A number of delegations would take out Candle light vigil in front of the Indian Consulates situated in USA and Canada to register their protest against the action taken by the Indian Army on the holy Golden Temple, 25 years ago,” said Dr. Pritpal Singh, convener American Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee, over phone from the U.S..

Dr. Singh added the incident had deeply hurt the sentiments of the Sikhs, which they believe could never be healed.

However, another group Dal Khalsa has plans to undertake a “Genocide Remembrance March” in the lanes and streets of the holy city of Amritsar on June 3, the day when the Indian Army carried out action at the Darbar Sahib to force out militants hidden inside the revered place.

“The march would start from Dal Khalsa office and conclude at Akal Takht where Ardas (prayer) would be performed in the memory of those who lost their lives during the attack,” said Kanwerpal Singh, spokesperson of Dal Khalsa.

Indian Army units had used heavy artillery against the terrorist militia, led by the Sikh extremist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was holed up inside the shrine complex.

SGPC, the premier body of Sikhs, would observe the Operation Blue Star’s 25th anniversary at Akal Takht, where they will honour the kin of Sikh martyrs on this occasion.

It is pertinent to mention that a few years back the SGPC had announced to construct a monument in the memory of Sikh martyrs of the Operation Blue Star, which is yet come into existence. By Ravinder Singh Robin(ANI)

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Sikhs from India arrive in Lahore to celebrate Baisakhi

April 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Sikhs from India arrive in Lahore to celebrate Baisakhi
Press Trust of India
Saturday, April 11, 2009, (Lahore)
Hundreds of Sikh pilgrims from India arrived here on Saturday to participate in Baisakhi celebrations during which they will also visit the birthplace of founder of their faith Guru Nanak at Nankana Sahib.

Sikhs arrived in this eastern Pakistani city to participate in Baisakhi celebrations marking the end of the wheat harvesting season at several holy sites.

A total of 180 Sikhs from India arrived in Lahore in the first of several special trains, Evacuee Trust Property Board media manager Jacolin Tressler said. Indian authorities had informed the Board that another 1,500 Sikhs were on their way in more special trains, she said.

During their nine-day stay in Pakistan, the Sikhs will visit Gurdwara Janamsthan at Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Guru Nanak, Gurdwara Dera Sahib in Lahore, Gurdwara Saccha Soda in Farooqabad and Gurdwara Rohri Sahib in Aimanabad. They will leave for India on April 20.

Officials of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Evacuee Trust Property Board, which is responsible for maintaining Sikh shrines, greeted the Sikh yatris or pilgrims at the border.

Several pilgrims crossed the border barefoot as a mark of respect for the land where Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, was born. Banners with messages of peace and welcome greeted the pilgrims.

The leaders of different ‘jathas’ or delegations stressed the need for people-to-people contacts and early resumption of the peace dialogue between Indian and Pakistan.

Soon after their arrival, the pilgrims left for Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasanabdal, where the main festival is to be held from Monday. The pilgrims are being guarded by police and paramilitary Pakistan Rangers.

The Pakistan government has for the first time deployed Pakistan Rangers to provide security to the Indian pilgrims because of a series of terror attacks across the country.

Besides Sikhs from India, some 1,000 pilgrims are expected to arrive from Europe, the Middle East, the US, Canada and Afghanistan. A large number of local Sikhs and Hindus will also participate in the festival.

Last year, over 4,000 Sikhs from India had attended the festival but the figure is lower this year due to tensions between the two countries in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.

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Jindal latest victim of shoe attack, ‘forgives’ attacker

April 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kurukshetra (Haryana), April 10 (IANS) Millionaire industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal Friday become the latest victim of a shoe attack when a drunk retired school teacher hurled a footwear at him inside the Congress party office in this Haryana town. Jindal said he had ‘forgiven’ the attacker.

‘Personally, I have forgiven that man but I think there should be some action against such people,’ Jindal told the media in state capital Chandigarh, 80 km from here.

The shoe did not hit Jindal. However, the Haryana Police took the offender, Raj Pal, into custody.

The incident took place at the Congress office here during a meeting of party leaders.

Police officials said the man had been medically examined and was found to be in an inebriated state when he hurled his shoe at Jindal. The provocation behind the incident was not yet clear.

Jindal, who represents the Kurukshetra constituency in the Lok Sabha, is seeking re-election from the same constituency.

Jindal wondered how did the man gain entry into the party office. ‘I am sure that he was not a Congress party worker and I do not know how he managed to gain entry inside the premises. He was in an inebriated condition and was continuously murmuring something,’ Jindal said.

Earlier, Congress leaders wanted to complain to the Election Commission against the opposition parties over the incident. But Jindal said he was not complaining, while suggesting that opposition leaders could be behind it.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan, who is the Congress in-charge for Haryana, condemned the show-throwing.

‘Such incidents are not at all good for the health of democracy and we condemn such acts. There should be a legal course of action against the people doing this,’ Hooda said.

The opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) too condemned the incident but blamed the Congress leaders for such incidents.

‘These incidents are a manifestation of the wrong policies of the Congress leadership. This also reflects on the infighting within the Congress. The person who hurled the shoe belongs to a Congress family,’ a spokesman of the INLD said.

The incident comes four days after journalist Jarnail Singh tossed his shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi to protest the candidatures of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar for the Lok Sabha polls. Tytler and Kumar are accused of involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Both were dropped as party candidates for the Lok Sabha polls from Delhi.

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Industrialist-MP Naveen Jindal latest shoe attack victim

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kurukshetra (Haryana), April 10 (IANS) Millionaire industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal Friday become the latest victim of a shoe attack with a retired school teacher hurling footwear at him in this Haryana town.

Though the shoe did not hit Jindal, the Haryana police took Raj Pal into custody following the incident.

Police officials said that the man was being medically examined as he seemed to be in an inebriated state when he hurled his shoe at Jindal. The provocation behind the incident was not yet clear.

The incident took place at the Congress office in Kurukshetra, about 80 km from capital Chandigarh, where Jindal was present at a meeting of party leaders.

Jindal, who represents the Kurukshetra constituency in the Lok Sabha, is seeking re-election from the seat.

‘The opposition INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) is behind this incident. Their local leaders are responsible for this,’ Jindal told reporters.

Journalist Jarnail Singh had tossed his shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi Tuesday. His grouse was that the Congress and the central government was doing nothing to give justice to victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. The throw worked, forcing riot suspects Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar of the Congress out of the poll race.

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Tytler decision good, but justice is pending, says shoe attacker

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Jagdish Tytler’s decision not to contest the Lok Sabha election has not made Jarnail Singh feel victorious. The journalist who chucked a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram in protest maintains that justice still needs to be done.

‘I am not feeling victorious. This (Tytler’s move) may be good politically, but still justice needs to be done,’ Singh told IANS here Thursday.

Singh shot to limelight and became a hero to many after he tossed a shoe at Chidambaram during a press conference Tuesday over the issue of a clean chit given to Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

‘If the people who lost their near and dear ones think that it is good, it is fine. But the culprits should be brought to book,’ he said.

Refuting the charge that his act was politically motivated, Singh said: ‘I am not with any party and not joining any party. Please concentrate on the issue.’

Singh’s act has added fuel to the widespread discontent among the victims of Sikh riots, which followed the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 by two of her Sikh security guards at her residence.

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Indian court puts off verdict on politician in anti-Sikh riot case

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi – An Indian court Thursday postponed until April 28 its verdict on the alleged involvement of a Congress Party politician in anti-Sikh riots of 1984 amid protests by the Sikh community.

Congress Party leader Jagdish Tytler is accused of inciting mobs to attack Sikhs in Delhi after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.

At least 2,000 Sikhs were killed in the Indian capital during the riots.

Tytler claims he is innocent and India’s federal investigative agency the Criminal Bureau of Investigation recently submitted a report to the court which, according to local media, said they had found no evidence against Tytler in the case.

The CBI’s so-called “clean chit” has led to emotional protests by the Sikh community in Delhi and in the north-western state of Punjab, where more than half the population follow the Sikh religion.

A journalist Jarnail Singh made headlines Tuesday when he threw his shoe at federal Home Minister P Chidambaram, a senior Congress Party leader, during a press briefing.

Singh later said he was angered by the minister’s reply to his question on Tytler’s nomination as a Congress Party candidate despite his association with the 1984 riots.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Sikhs in Punjab blocked traffic and disrupted rail services in the state on Wednesday.

Scattered protests led by Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal party and Sikh religious organizations continued across the state and in Delhi on Thursday.

The Akali Dal is an ally of the Congress Party’s main rival, the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The Congress Party, which is under pressure to withdraw Tytler’s candidature, said it would wait for the court’s verdict.

“We will make a statement when it is the right time,” Congress Party leader Oscar Fernandes said.

Delhi Chief Minister and Congress Party leader Sheila Dikshit accused the Akali Dal and the BJP of politicizing the issue.

General elections are scheduled to be held in five phases in India beginning April 16.

Tytler is the Congress Party candidate for the North-East Delhi constituency.

He has been a Congress Party lawmaker in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, since 1984 and has won three consecutive elections as the party’s nominee.(dpa)

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Media at distance during Chidambaram’s Chandigarh visit

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Chandigarh, April 8 (IANS) The media was kept at bay when Home Minister P. Chidambaram visited here Wednesday, a day after a shoe lobbed by a journalist upset over the Congress’ stance on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots narrowly missed him.

The home minister, here to review security arrangements for the parliamentary elections, held separate meetings with officials of the Haryana government and the Chandigarh administration.

And security personnel made sure journalists didn’t get close.

Though the minister was not supposed to have any formal interaction with reporters, the media was kept away from interacting informally too.

Chidambaram, who arrived here early Wednesday in a special Border Security Force (BSF) jet, later flew back to New Delhi.

Journalist Jarnail Singh of the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran had hurled a show towards the minister during a press conference at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi Tuesday.

The journalist was upset over the minister trying to evade questions on the issue of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, especially the clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The journalist was taken away from the press conference by security officials and was released a few hours later after the home minister and the Congress party did not press charges.

Chidambaram later said that he had forgiven the journalist. The journalist said after his release that his action was wrong but the issue was right.

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Lok Sabha ticket, job offer for shoe throwing scribe

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Chandigarh, April 7 (IANS) Iraqi journalist Montadher al-Zaidi, who is biding time in a prison after his shoe-throwing action on then US President George W. Bush last year, is not going to like it.

The main protagonist of the Indian version of his act, journalist Jarnail Singh who hurled a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi Tuesday, has not only been released but is getting attractive offers.

The Akali Dal (Amritsar) led by radical leader and former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to Jarnail Singh.

Mann has offered to give his party’s ticket for the Amritsar seat, from where cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is seeking re-election on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket.

‘Jarnail has done a big act of bravery. We all Sikhs take pride in what he did to highlight the injustice against Sikhs. He is a warrior of the community,’ Mann said.

The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini-parliament of Sikh religious affairs, has offered to give a job to Jarnail Singh if his employer (Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran) fires him from his present job after his action.

Jarnail Singh’s employers, in a press statement, have already said disciplinary action was being initiated against him.

The cash-rich SGPC, which has an annual budget of Rs.4.48 billion (448 crore), also offered to take care of Jarnail Singh and his family.

The Delhi unit of the Akali Dal has already announced a reward of Rs.200,000 to the shoe-throwing scribe.

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Shoe thrower’s mother thanks Chidambaram for forgiving him

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The mother of Sikh journalist Jarnail Singh, who hurled a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram at a press conference Tuesday, thanked the Congress leader for forgiving her son.

‘Atpata sa laga…. galat hi tha. Humne kaha, beta aage se mat karna. Agar gussa bhi hai, toh baat karo (We were shocked…. it was wrong. We told him not to do it again and if you have anger, talk it out),’ Jarnail Singh’s mother told reporters outside her home in the capital.

‘We are thankful (to Chidambaram) for forgiving him.’

As two security men led Jarnail Singh away from the press conference at the AICC office, Chidambaram was heard telling them, ‘It’s all right. Let him be. Nothing has happened.’

Jarnail Singh, a senior journalist with the daily Dainik Jagran, was detained by the police after he threw a shoe at Chidambaram to protest the clean chit given to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler by the Central Investigation Bureau in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

He was later released as Chidambaram did not press any charges against him.

Jarnail Singh’s sister added that they could not say what transpired in the mind of the otherwise ‘calm’ journalist.

‘It is difficult to talk about his state of mind. Whatever he has done is wrong. I am thankful to the government for releasing him,’ his sister added.

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Tempers run high ahead of Lok Sabha elections

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The political temperature was rising ahead of Lok Sabha elections just nine days away with arrest orders against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad for threatening BJP candidate Varun Gandhi, now in jail, and an emotional Sikh journalist hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram at a Congress press conference Tuesday.

As political parties slug it out in what is expected to be one of the toughest general elections, a few candidates, including high profile ones, are stooping low and offending the Election Commission.

On Monday, Lalu Prasad, leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), stunned everyone when he threatened to run a ‘roller’ over Varun Gandhi for his alleged anti-Muslim speeches that have sent him to jail.

Addressing a rally in Kishanganj, 350 km from Patna, he thundered: ‘If I were the home minister, and if Varun had said this, then I would have run a roller over his chest and thought about the consequences later.’

He also justified the move to jail Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit constituency, as right.

Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), which too has come out against Varun Gandhi’s speeches, voiced shock over Lalu Prasad’s remarks, saying it was unbecoming of a central minister to speak in this manner.

Kishanganj District Superintendent of Police Ram Narayan Singh Tuesday ordered the arrest of Lalu Prasad on the strength of a criminal complaint filed against the railway minister.

Far away from Bihar, at a press conference in the national capital, Chidambaram swerved to avoid a shoe hurled by journalist Jarnail Singh, who had got into a minor tiff with the minister on the circumstances that led to Congress’ Lok Sabha nominee Jagdish Tytler being exonerated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The ugly episode, quickly condemned by almost all political parties, highlighted how temperatures were rising before the polls. Things could get even more out of hand as parties, alliances and their supporters joust and scuffle for supremacy and voter attention.

In Hyderabad, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) condemned Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s remark that the Andhra Pradesh capital was sitting on a powder keg and had terrorists more dangerous than those in Jammu and Kashmir.

MIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that Modi’s remarks made at a BJP rally Monday were part of a conspiracy to weaken the Muslim leadership. He said he would complain to the Election Commission.

Addressing a public meeting Monday night in the city, Modi said a link to Hyderabad emerged whenever a terrorist incident occurred in Gujarat, Mumbai and other places in the country.

In Uttar Pradesh, Ashok Pradhan, the BJP candidate from the Bulandshahr Lok Sabha constituency, has been booked along with 10 party activists for making provocative statements, police said.

Pradhan, a former union minister, and the others had assembled March 30 at the BJP office in Bulandshahr, about 400 km from Lucknow, and raised allegedly offensive slogans. They were demanding the release of BJP leader Varun Gandhi, now in the Etah jail for his alleged hate speeches.

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Shoe throwing reflected views of community, say Sikh youth

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Many of them were not even born during the 1984 riots but the hurt still ran deep with many Sikh youth introspecting on events of 25 years ago and empathising with journalist Jarnail Singh for throwing a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram.

‘I think it was a very bold and strong step. It not only showed the anguish and frustration of an individual but voiced the sentiments of the entire Sikh community against the judgment regarding the 1984 Sikh riots,’ Arshdeep Singh, a college student, said.

As the anti-Sikh riots came back in the reckoning with the Delhi journalist hurling his shoe at Chidambaram over his response to the clean chit given by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his involvement in the riots, everyone agreed that the issue was right.

Balwinder Singh, a young priest, said the patience of the Sikh community had been wearing thin.

‘Do not try our patience any more. We have been waiting for justice the past 25 years. Whatever has happened is just a mere reflection of the community’s views. If the government does not take any action, we will see to this on our own.’

Added another student, Tanvir Singh Sandhu.

‘The incident has moved me very strongly. Even though the method used by the journalist was very immature, the message he wanted to convey was very right. At least now the government knows that ordinary people are not sleeping and they know how to voice their opinions.’

According to Saaghar Singh Sachdev, an assistant manager with an insurance company, Jarnail Singh’s action was a ‘a method to attract the attention of the people on the issue’.

‘Though he tried to ape the Iraqi journalist who the a shoe at Bush, still he has given light to the fire within us against the recent developments in the 1984 Sikh riots case.’

HR professional Tajinder Singh said the Sikh community was deeply pained and anguished. ‘For the past 25 years we have been waiting for justice and the accused are not only moving freely but enjoying all sorts of protection.’

‘The act may not be justified, but people are finding ways to fetch attention towards injustice to Sikhs. The government must brought the accused to book before the common men take law in their own hands,’ he said.

And businessman Manjeet Singh felt such actions were necessary to make their ‘grievances audible to a deaf government’.

More than 3,000 people, including more than 2,000 in Delhi alone, were killed in the immediate aftermath of prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in October 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards.

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Shiromani Akali Dal announces cash award for shoe-throwing journo

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Praising Delhi journalist Jarnail Singh for his ‘courage and bravery’ in hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference, Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday announced a cash reward of Rs.200,000 for him.

‘Decisions are not taken by throwing shoes but this incident has showed our pain and suffering. Bhagat Singh had also thrown a bomb in the assembly. We have thus announced a reward of Rs.200,000 for his courage and bravery,’ Avtar Singh Hit, national general secretary of Shiromani Akali Dal, told IANS.

Jarnail Singh hurled a shoe at Chidambaram, at a press conference here, over his response to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The president of the Delhi unit of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Manjit Singh also supported Jarnail Singh’s act.

‘I fully support the journalist. What he has done represents the feelings of all the Sikhs of the country, and not only Sikhs it represents the feelings of all the law abiding citizens of the country,’ Manjit Singh told IANS.

‘Three months ago in Punjab, Rahul Gandhi had promised to not give tickets to Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler but they were given tickets, and CBI also gave a clean chit to them. We are waiting for the court’s judgement and our struggle will continue,’ he said.

Meanwhile, leaders of various Sikh organisation Tuesday held a sit-in at Jantar Mantar here to protest the CBI’s clean chit to Tytler in a case relating to the 1984 massacre of Sikhs.

Around 4,000-5,000 people participated in the dharna. The protesters first offered ‘ardas’ or prayer at the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib at noon after which they proceeded towards Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s house. They were, however, stopped near Jantar Mantar.

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Sikh organisations justify shoe-throwing incident

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ludhiana/ Mumbai/New Delhi, Apr 8 (ANI): Sikhs distributed sweets to mark the defiant act of a journalist from their community who threw a shoe at Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a news conference after getting angry with the Minister’s reply to a question about 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed.

The Sikh Students Federation (SSF) said the incident highlighted the fact that those responsible for the riots have not been punished so far.

“We believe that the act by journalist Jarnail Singh, who threw shoe on Chidambaram was right. He threw it because even after 25 years, the one who were responsible for the Sikh riots have not been punished and no justice have been given to Sikhs,” said Gurdeep Singh, SSF president in Ludhiana.

Sikh organisations in Mumbai also came out in support of the incident.

“The act may be different in different places. It may vary from person to person, but we are supporting the cause,” said Kulwant Singh, general secretary of Guru Singh Sabha.

Throwing a shoe at someone is considered an insult in India.

A leading advocate who belongs to the Sikh community condemned the incident, saying legal action should be taken against the reporter.

“I condemn the act. It’s a crime and whosoever has done this act might it be because of aggression or sorrow. It’s not justified. Legal action must be taken against it,” said KTS Tulsi, a senior advocate in New Delhi.

The shoe missed Chidambaram, who leaned back to avoid it. He later smiled and asked security guards to take the reporter out of the room.

This was the latest incident of shoe-throwing as a mark of protest against political leaders, including former U.S. President George W. Bush and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (ANI)

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Journalist hurls shoe at Indian home minister

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Paris –

New Delhi – A Sikh journalist hurled a shoe at India’s security minister during a press conference on Tuesday after getting angry at a reply to a question about the
1984 riots in which scores of Sikhs were killed.

There was high drama at the conference after the shoe missed Palaniappan Chidambaram, who deftly leaned back to avoid being hit.

“Please take him away,” a smiling Chidambaram told security guards. “It doesn’t matter.”

The journalist, identified as Jarnail Singh, working with Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, was taken to a local police station.

Singh had got into a minor argument with Chidambaram on the circumstances that led to former minister Jagdish Tytler being exonerated by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the riots.

There is anger in the Sikh community which believes that the Congress Party-led coalition government pressured the bureau to give Tytler a clean chit.

More than 3,000 Sikhs were killed by rioting mobs of Congress Party sympathizers after then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot by her Sikh bodyguards on October
31, 1984.

Tuesday’s The incident was reminiscent of shoe attacks that have been used as a symbol of protest against leaders including former US President George W Bush and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

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Heavy snowfall blocks national highway in Kashmir

February 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb. 6 (ANI): The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked on Friday due to the heaviest snowfall in Kashmir in recent years. Snowfall has brought the traffic movement to a standstill.

The strategic 300-kilometre-long Highway is the valley’s only connection with rest of the country.

Hundreds of trucks and other vehicles going either way remained stranded on the highway due to the accumulation of snow.

“No provision of food, no bedding is available here. Nobody has come here to whom we can tell our problem,” said Jarnail Singh, a truck driver.

The heavy snowfall that started on Thursday evening led for the closing of the highway for the vehicular traffic.

“The highway closed yesterday at four in the evening. There is no provision of food or facilities to stay here. Government has sent no help here and roads are all blocked we cannot proceed forward,” said Ramesh Kumar, a passenger.

The Srinagar-Jammu highway passes through some of the trickiest mountain terrains in the Pir Panjal mountain range of Kashmir.

The road gets blocked every time there is heavy snowfall or landslides due to heavy rains. (ANI)

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