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Shoe attacks in Indian General Elections

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shoe-attack.jpgDo you remember the shoe attack on former US president George Bush? Actually months after an infuriated Iraqi reporter flung a shoe at US President George Bush, its now our home minister Chidambaram’s time to face the shoe. Last week, Chidambaram, who was speaking in a press conference about 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed, was surprised when suddenly Jarnail Singh, a sikh journalist from a famous Hindi daily, flung the shoe on him. However the shoe missed the target as the minister leaned back to avoid the hurled shoe which narrowly missed him.

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