New Delhi, Apr 11- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the decision to pull out Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar from the Lok Sabha race shows the Congress party’s sensitivity towards the sentiments of the Sikh community saying it was better late than never. “Obviously the decision (to field Tytler and Kumar as candidates) was reversed. It shows the Congress party’s sensitivity towards the Sikh community and for this you should compliment the Congress party,” he told journalists of the Indian Women’s Press Corps.
A day after Tytler and Kumar were dropped after the shoe-throwing incident over a CBI clean chit to Tytler, Singh said he was neither informed nor consulted over CBI action.
“I was not informed, not consulted” over CBI clean chit to Jagdish Tytler.The action against Tytler came with the Congress fearing a Sikh backlash in the elections as the issue came under spotlight with a Sikh journalist lobbing a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram at a press conference on Tuesday.
