New Delhi, July 02: Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who created a stir by flinging a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram, was sacked on Thursday by his employers.
Singh, who was a defence corresponding with a Hindi
daily for nearly a decade, said his services with the
newspaper were terminated following a show-cause notice issued
about 4 months ago. "I have been victimised for raising a
genuine issue concerning the 1984 anti-Sikh riots," he said.
The newspaper management confirmed that Singh's
services were terminated after an internal inquiry.
Singh was attending attending a press conference of
Chidambaram in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections on April
7 when he posed questions to the minister on the "clean chit"
by CBI to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who is an accused in
the anti-Sikh riots case following then Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi's assassination.
Not satisfied with Chidambaram's reply , Singh flung
his sneakers at the minister shocking him and other
journalists around.
The shoe failed to hit the target but it set the
Congress rethinking on giving tickets to Tytler and another
leader Sajjan Kumar, whose name had also cropped up in the
riots. The two were denied tickets to contest Lok Sabha
elections.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, July 02, 2009, 18:19