AKALI DAL OFFERS SHOE THROWING SCRIBE LOK SABHA TICKET, JOB

Dainik Jagran journalist Jarnail Singh who hurled a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram on April 7, has not only been released but is getting attractive offers. The Akali Dal (Amritsar) led by former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to Jarnail Singh for the Amritsar seat, from where cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is seeking re-election on a BJP ticket. “Jarnail has done a big act of bravery. We all Sikhs take pride in what he did to highlight the injustice against Sikhs. He is a warrior of the community,” Mann said. The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini-parliament of Sikh religious affairs, has offered to give a job to Jarnail Singh if his employer (Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran) fires him from his present job after his action. The SGPC also offered to take care of Jarnail Singh and his family. The Delhi unit of the Akali Dal has already announced a reward of Rs 200,000 to the shoe-throwing scribe.