Modi, Man Mohan & the shoe chucker...

While on the subject of Narendra Modi here is another one from Modiland.......

A man made an attempt to throw a shoe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a rally in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The shoe landed a few metres away from the PM's dais. He was addressing an election rally in the city.The youth who attempted to throw shoe at PM was taken away by police. PM has asked police not to file a case against the 28-year-old shoe-thrower.
The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has condemned the incident, terming it as an unestablished means of protest in a democracy.
Reacting to the incident, Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi has said that 'shoe throwing is not our tradition'.
"If there is a problem, there are two ways to express it -- wrong way and the right way. This is not the right way. This is not our tradition," Vadra told reporters at Dadaur village in her mother's parliamentary constituency.
In the recent past, there have been similar incidents. In one of such attacks, a shoe was hurled at Home Minister P Chidamabaram at a press conference by a journalist. At a rally in Kurukshtra, Congress leader Naveen Jindal was the target of a shoe thrown by a schoolteacher. The shoe missed him. BJP leader Lal Krishan Advani has also faced a shoe attack, which missed him. Chief Minister Narendra Modi, known for his innovative ideas, recently at a rally, came up with a unique technique to avoid such attacks. He tied up a volley ball net infront of his dais to prevent any hurled shoe from reaching him. (With PTI inputs)

Now Priyanka Ghandi, feels that 'shoe throwing is not our tradition'. I'm not going to talk about the shoe chucker because.

1. the shoe never finds its mark.
2. the chucker is always forgiven.

The obvious question to follow is 'then what is?' I guess our traditions would include the following:

1. Stashing away large sums of money in foreign banks ( Swiss).
2. Using violence to coerce people to our point of view.
3. Consider no issue or person beyond being used as a political tool to garner votes.

Politicians make you weep............, particularly those that are at a total disconnect with issues that are close to the heart of the poorest of the poor.

I salute Modi, not for his economic prowess or the riots that he allegedly engineered, but because of his creativity in getting a Volley ball net to protect him.