Method was wrong, issue is right, says journalist Jarnail Singh

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler on Monday asked for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incident of shoe-throwing by a journalist on Home Minister P Chidambaram, which had brought Tytler's role in the 1984 Sikh riots to the centerstage. On April 7, Jarnail Singh, a journalist of the Dainik Jagran newspaper, had thrown a shoe at Chidambaram during a press conference at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi.

April 13th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Delhi based journalist Jarnail Singh who tossed a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi April 7 was honoured by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Monday at Golden Temple complex in Amritsar.

April 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - 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.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Journalist Jarnail Singh Wednesday denounced politicians for 'trying to take advantage' of his dramatic shoe attack on Home Minister P. Chidambaram and asked political parties to come out with a law against communal violence.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Comments for and against Jarnail Singh's impulsive act are flooding the cyberworld after the reporter hurled his shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram at a press conference Tuesday.

April 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The live shoe tossing by a journalist towards Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi Tuesday brought varied reactions from the Sikh leadership in Punjab - the only state where the community is in majority in the country.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hindi daily Dainik Jagran condemned the action of its journalist Jarnail Singh, who Tuesday threw a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the issue of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and said disciplinary action was being taken against him.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday announced a cash reward of Rs. 2,00,000 to Delhi journalist Jarnail Singh for hurling a shoe at Union Home Minister P.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The way was wrong but the issue was right, journalist Jarnail Singh said Tuesday after hurling a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram as an expression of 'deep anguish' over the clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 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.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There was little indication of the emotive action to follow when Delhi journalist Jarnail Singh asked Home Minister P. Chidambaram a question about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots at a press conference Tuesday.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday refuted media reports of Home Minister P. Chidambaram refusing to answer a question put to him by journalist Jarnail Singh on the "clean chit" given to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in connection with the 1984 Sikh riots case.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 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.

April 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - 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.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram deftly swerved to a side Tuesday to avoid a shoe hurled by a journalist upset about the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.