Jarnail Singh, now a famous Sikh journalist, was on 7th April 2009 thrust into the limelight when he hurled a shoe at Home Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaram at a press conference. Mr Singh alleges that this was due to Home minister's lack of response to questions that Mr Singh had put to the minister regarding the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) "clean chit" for the Congress leader, Jagdish Tytler in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.