Politics: Shoe thrown at P. Chidambaram

Is it becoming a fashion within journalists now ? I think this was unecessary. If we really start throwing shoes at the politicians who are not upto our expectations, then soon the shoe companies will flourish in india.

LOL

I am not sure but I think shoe thrower on Bush got 3yrs and judgement didnt take 6-8 months.

Lets see what this journalist gets and after how many years!

i believe congress would get him out as soon as they could to generate some free publicity.

they would not want him in jail with elections coming up.

and bjp would be a fool to not use this as one of their weapons to target congress and their bad deeds.

^^ that would be highly counter productive, chidambaram is not just any person, he is the home minister of the Indian union,which is an institution, when some one throws shoe at him, he insults the institution.
The guy who did this should ideally be sent to jail, but knowing congress they would do what they do best - nothing :ashamed:

heh. congress could probably get chidambaram to hold a press conference 'pardoning' the dude who threw a shoe at him.

practically speaking, the dude worked at a newspaper. he did not intend to hurt the home minister.

it was a bad form of protest which must be punished. but the timing is bad for that. especially when congress is being mocked by its current partners with seat sharing agreements.

This form of display is just not right.. he should be punished to set an example to others.. however lets see how our responsible parties are gonna handle this situation.

apparently the dude has apologised and congress has decided not to press charges.

Does this signal the start of a new shoe throwing epidemic ?

If this continues very soon journalists would be attending press conferences bare-footed and perhaps only in towels?

Chidambaram, this idiot english gentlemen wannabe should have just said "no comment' when the journalist asked him that question. Instead he acted like a true politician and played diplomacy with his own countrymen. Someone kick this fool out of office for me. He's no different than the other moron on the block, pranab mukerjee. For 2 months he fooled the entire country with speeches like "india has all options open" and "what did pakistan say, hmm?".

Corruption party aka Congress party - fooling the country since independence.