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Jarnail Singh (Journailst) Sacked after 3 Months

Jarnail Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:56:32 +0000

New Delhi, July 2: Jarnail Singh, the journalist who lobbed a shoe at home minister P. Chidambaram in frustration at inaction against the 1984 anti-Sikh rioters, has been sacked by his newspaper nearly three months later.

In a notice sent to the journalist, the management of Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagaran described his conduct at the April 7 news conference as “an act unimaginable on the part of a journalist and subversive of basic rule of discipline”.

Jarnail, a special correspondent who covered military affairs and states including Punjab, was shocked that the newspaper should react in such a manner so long after the incident. He had lobbed his sneaker in the direction of the home minister but did not mean to harm him.

“I thought the chapter was closed because of the way the home minister had reacted and had accepted that not enough people (who were behind the killing of Sikhs in 1984) had been punished,” Jarnail said.

After the incident, the management of the newspaper had advised him “to take rest at home”, he said. That was followed up with two show-cause notices.

At the April 7 news conference, Jarnail had asked Chidambaram about the CBI “clean chit” to Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 riots case. He felt the home minister had ducked the question.

“Now I feel that I am being victimised, punished for raising my voice against the injustice of 1984 and the CBI’s and the government’s unwillingness to prosecute those who were responsible for it”, Jarnail said. He said he was even more resolute now.

Sikh political parties had offered Jarnail tickets to contest the Lok Sabha elections but he had refused.

Following Jarnail’s outburst at the April 7 news conference, the Congress high command reconsidered its decision to nominate Tytler and Sajjan as candidates for the general election. Neither was eventually fielded.

Source: The Telegraph

Newspaper Coverage (Amritsar Visit)

Jarnail Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:11:00 +0000

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Jarnail Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:15:53 +0000

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Jarnail Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:00:18 +0000

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Jarnail Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:46:07 +0000

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Jarnail Singh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:28:21 +0000

I did not intend to hurt anyone

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My Shoe was Not Against home minister P Chidambram but against denial of justice.

Jarnail Singh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:11:42 +0000

After painful wait of 25 years for Justice some kind of protest was needed to remind them that hearts of victims are still bleeding. mere compensations can not heal their wounds, justice needs to be done. but in contrast the preparators were rewarded with ministries and even after nanavati commissions report they got tickets. not only that cbi decided to close down the cases. they were pouring salt on our wounds and thinking sikhs are weak and dont have courage to stand against it. my shoe was not against Home Minister P. Chidambram but against the denial of justice. its true chidambrams remarks of happiness on tytler’s exoneration triggered the passion in my heart but later on he himself accepted that ‘enough people have not been punished’. its very honest acceptance. if the oldest party woke up after my shoe and booted them out then its not my fault. politically a right step has been taken but still guilty needs to be punished by court.