After Home Minister P Chidambaram, Pakistan President Zardari, former U.S. President George W Bush and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in facing shoe attack, it is now Jammu and Kashmir C.M. Omar Abdullah who joined in “Shoe Attacked Group”A shoe was thrown at him during Independence Day speech.
The CM played down the incident and in a lighter tone welcomed it saying he would be happy if people instead of pelting stones, threw shoes. The shoe, which was thrown by a former policeman, missed the target. As expected he was taken into custody.
Thousands of protestors on Sunday demonstrated in Jammu after security forces shot dead 7 protestors in 2 days and beefed up security for I Day. Srinagar and other parts of the Kashmir valley have recently been rocked by some of the biggest pro-independence protests in two years.
On Friday and Saturday, troops said they shot dead six protesters and bystanders during violent protests by rock-throwing Kashmiris. Residents accused the security forces of opening fire on peaceful demonstrators.
One of the young men killed on Saturday was from Anantnag, where thousands of residents – men, women and children alike – held noisy night-long demonstrations, witnesses said. Night protests were also held in Narabal locality, on the outskirts of Srinagar, where a young man was also shot dead Saturday by security forces.
Police said security forces fired in retaliation after someone from the crowd shot at the troops with a hunting gun, but residents accused them of a “cover-up”.Security forces have been accused of killing 57 protesters and bystanders in the past two months and most of the victims have been young men and teenagers. Seeing all this all we can say is former police man might have gone mad and felt that CM is responsible for all this and he is worth being attacked with chappals and shoes.
