Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday faced slogans as he got up to deliver his address at an international conference in New Delhi.
Lawyer Santosh Kumar Suman (32), a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association, stood on the desk, took off his shirt and shouted, “Prime Minister, go back. Roll back diesel prices.”
The incident took place at Vigyan Bhawan where Dr. Singh walked to the dais to deliver his address at the ‘Conference on Economic Growth in Asia and Changes of Corporate Environment’.
The Prime Minister waited for a while as security officials took the protestor out of the plenary hall of Vigyan Bhawan.
A senior police official said Suman, who resides in east Delhi’s Shakarpur, gained entry to the venue using a “proper” invitation card.
“The Special Protection Group (SPG) handed him over to us. He is under detention. We are investigating claims that he is a member of political party RJD,” the official said.
The conference, organised by Indian Law Institute, was attended by legal luminaries from across Asia besides Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia and Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid.
Keywords: Manmohan Singh, Indian Law institute conference
Such incidents are to happen more with the policies upcoming aimed at
hitting the health of already suffering common man. There is a limit for
everything but the way prices have shooted in Petroleum Prices displays no
limit and the common man remains messing up in his limits.
Protest is allowed in all civilized socieities. There is nothing wrong, and no need to detain the protestor. Why is the SPG "investigating" which political party (if any) he has leanings to ? No shoe was thrown so why make a mountain out of a molehill ?
Santosh Kumar Suman is a voice of common man!!
How did this prospective protester manage to gain entry in the first few rows of invitees, given the present widespread anti -congress mood triggered by the pro - reforms policy initiatives in the face of stiff opposition by various political parties?Was there any breach of security ? The matter needs to be investigated properly .
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