IRREVERENCE: Jairam wipes shoe with spun cotton garland!

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PTI / http://expressbuzz.com Last Updated : 26 Jul 2011.

JAIPUR: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh kicked up a controversy by wiping his shoe with a garland of spun cotton given to him as a welcome gesture by Congress members at a public function in Bikaner district of Rajasthan.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was also present at the function at Kolayat area in Bikaner yesterday where they distributed sanction letters of the first instalment of grant aid under Mukhyamantri Gramin BPL Awas Yojana.

The cotton garlands were offered to Ramesh by Congress office-bearers Rameshwar Dudi and Rampyari Vishnoi. When the minister was sitting in a chair at the dais, he took out the garland and put it on a table. After some time, he took the garland and cleaned his shoe.

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Footwear Fetish: High drama at AICC; man tries to hurl shoe at Dwivedi

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Congress general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi. File Photo - The Hindu.

High drama was witnessed at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday when a person posing as a journalist tried to attack party general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi with a shoe, apparently miffed over the treatment meted out to Baba Ramdev.

The person, who was carrying an identification as Sunil Kumar of Nav-Sanchar Patrika from Rajasthan, came close to Mr. Dwivedi, removed his shoe and stopped short of hitting him with it.

The middle-aged man, wearing a striped T-shirt, was heard telling Mr. Dwivedi that “you cannot stop us from asking questions.”

I vaguely remember that this is the Second or Third Journo to have indulged in this kind of fetish. While he is not a true representative of the Media Community, I just wonder why they can't come out with some new trick?

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