Another one "bites the dust"

Being hit be a chappal or a shoe in India has traditionally been the highest form of protest to express ones anger at a situation.

It all started with the famous Bush incident ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8GOrc0-Ygg) when a reporter threw both his shoes at then President Bush. we are is election mode in India now. It is now that people can use this situation to express their anger the most. Not only this but also politicians are more in the "open" so they can interact more with the aam jantha. So when the Home Minister Mr. Chidambaram was giving his report on the action the Indian goverment is taking on terrorism and Kasab, a journo took this oppertunity to make a statement on the Tytler case. He flung his shoe at the minister ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUpKYVRh6U). This morning when i opened the news page, i see that another minister Mr. Jindal was "attacked" by the shoe ( http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pc-finds-sole-mate-mp-jindal-gets-hit-by-shoe/89958-37.html) . I think it has now become a fashion for journos to attack politicians with a shoe. But people never underestimate the thinking of an Indian politicain and what he or she can do to win an election. Because soon you might find a member of the miniter support team sitting in the crowd and throwing a shoe at him. Because being hit by a shoe is also important to the politician, as it shows that he is popular, and the Indain media on the constant look out for TRP (no idea what it means BTW) would blow the situation out of propotion and that perticular poitician will be on all the peoples topics (take this very blog for example). So now waiting to see how many politician adopt this strategy, and waiting to see who is the next one who "bites the dust".