With his headline-grabbing act on Tuesday, Dainik Jagran correspondent Jarnail Singh has joined a growing list of people worldwide who have been trying to make their point through their shoes. •December 15,2008: On his last visit to Iraq before leaving the US presidency,George Bush was addressing a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in Baghdad when Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi stood up and threw two shoes,one by one,at him. Bush was able to duck them. Zaidi also shouted This is your farewell kiss from Iraqi people,you dog. •February 3: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was delivering a speech at Cambridge University when a German student threw a shoe at him,apparently in protest against Chinas policies in Tibet. The shoe landed on the stage,some distance away from the target. •February 5: Israels ambassador to Sweden Benny Dagan has been the only one to have been actually hit by the shoe thrown at him. He was delivering a speech at Stockholm University when a young woman threw her shoe at him. The shoe hit the ambassador in his stomach. Another protestor then joined in,hurling two books and notepad at Dagan. The protestors were expressing their unhappiness at Israels military action in Gaza. •March 21: Supreme Court judge Arijit Pasayat was hearing a contempt petition against some members of a music school in Mumbai,when one of the accused women threw her sandal at him. The sandal missed its target. Meanwhile,the government said there was no immediate move to review the security of VIPs in light of todays incident. Sources in the Home Ministry said not much importance was being attached to the incident and there was no official discussion on the subject during the day. They said an elaborate system was already in place to ensure foolproof security for VIPs. Incidents like these have more of a nuisance value. The security cover for VIPs takes care of all genuine threats and is constantly under review to make it more effective and foolproof, a source said.
