Jarnail Singh throws shoe at Home Minister, P chidambaram

It seems that our democracy has gone low to such an extent that we can no longer protest or ask questions in open forum. One side Dr Amartya Sen is writing about Argumentative India and on other side in real India home minister does not allow even the senior journalists to ask question on an important issue.

What has happened is not a question of Jarnail Singh becoming famous or infamous in India or Singh community. We need to see it in the context. When the home minister is having a press conference about giving clean chit to Mr. Jagdish Tytler then he is supposed to face the questions from journalists. We can see in the video how rude Mr. home minister was. He was blaming the journalist to use the forum. It is difficult to understand what the press conference is all about then. On the other hand Jarnail Singh was quite relaxed even after throwing the shoe over the PC. He sit back comfortably.

It is pretty obvious that his intention was not to harm P Chidambaram. If he had other intentions he would have gone forward and hit him. He was sitting in the front row anyway. He was frustrated by the way Mr PC was behaving. As a young man he has seen the killing of thousands of Sikhs in the national capital and today the culprit is going free.

This also raises a question on whole functioning of the government machinery. No one has been convicted for the Sikh riots in 25 years. Then how on earth the thousands of Sikhs were killed. I believe they did not suicide in depression of seeing Indira Gandhi dead. Prima facie it can only be Congress activist to spread the killing of Sikhs and masses can not be blamed for killing. It has to be leaders. Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were leading activist in those days in Delhi.

Now the government is defending itself by saying that it is the decision of the court to let these accused go free. But the court can work only on the basis of the evidences provided to them. The court has no authority to conduct its own investigation. Investigation agency, CBI, does not go to record the testimony of the witnesses and says they are missing. Many of the witnesses are living in USA and UK because there is no security in the country. Everyone knows their addresses in the western countries. They have given their testimony at every possible forum but in vain.

We helpless people have no other option but to hit back by our shoes over the post bearers in the country and that is what Jarnail Singh has done.