Cong may rethink Tytler, Sajjan Kumar tickets

Apparently concerned over the political fallout of hurling of shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram, Congress on Tuesday indicated it was open to review the candidatures of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar.

Tytler and Kumar are accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, but CBI had cleared him recently.

Chidambaram had to face the ire of a journalist Jarnail Singh working for Dainik Jagran when he refused to answer questions raised by Singh.

Reacting on the development, Congress leader Janardhan Diwedi said, "We will see what should be done on Tytler's candidature."

"Congress is a large party and it takes considered decisions at appropriate time. Let us see what solutions emerge in the future," party spokesman Ashwini Kumar said at the AICC briefing held hours after the incident.

Kumar was asked to comment whether the party would withdraw nominations to Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, a demand also made by the BJP.

Earlier, after a hearing on the CBI's final investigation report, a Delhi court had given clean chit to Tytler and Sajjan Kumar.

And despite a protest by the Sikh families, Congress fielded Tytler as a candidate in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from the North East Delhi parliamentary constituency.

(With PTI inputs)