INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: The Congress today withdrew Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar from the electoral fray. Both of them are alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Both, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar expressed their sentiments to the media that they do not wish to embarrass the Congress party by contesting this general elections when some political parties and individuals have tried to vitiate the atmosphere. It is their sole decision to opt out of Lok Sabha elections 2009.

The Congress party accepted the feelings of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, and given a decision that they will not be the candidates of Indian National Congress for the Lok Sabha election.

The Congress party will soon decide for alternatives. This decision of Congress party comes amid a raging controversy over fielding both the leaders, whose names figured as accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, accentuated by the incident of shoe throwing by a Sikh journalist to home minister P Chidambaram at the AICC press conference on Tuesday.

The journalist who threw the show at home minister said that he was protesting against the clean chit given by CBI to Jagadish Tytler in the riots case