New Delhi, April 7 (Inditop) At least 50 Sikhs were Tuesday briefly detained after they tried to break police barricades and march to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence here to protest the detention of a journalist who chucked a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
A large number of Sikhs, including women, gathered at the Jantar Mantar as the news spread of Jarnail Singh hurling a shoe at the minister at a press conference at the Congress party office here.
Raising slogans against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, around 50 people tried to jump the barricades and march towards Gandhi’s residence.
The protesters thrashed a Tytler dummy with shoes and carried placards saying “Hang Tytler and Sajjan Kumar” and “Why lawbreakers are being made lawmakers?”.
“The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is shielding Tytler and Kumar at the government’s behest. They are responsible for the killing of innocent Sikhs,” said Sattu Singh, father of Jasvir Singh who is a key witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
