Jarnail Singh

Description

Indian journalist and politician belonging to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
  1. He was a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly, representing the Rajouri Garden constituency until 6 January 2017, when he resigned as MLA to compete for the AAP for Chief Minister against sitting CM Parkash Singh Badal.
  2. Jarnail Singh obtained a diploma in journalism from the YMCA Institute for Media Studies and Information Technology.
  3. He started his career as a reporter for sandhya times.
  4. He then worked as a correspondent with the Hindi-language daily Dainik Jagran for over a decade.
  5. Singh gained media attention when he threw a shoe at India’s Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference on 7 April 2009. Singh was upset that the minister’s party, the Indian National Congress, had given poll tickets to leaders who had been accused of instigating the 1984 anti-Sikh program.
  6. He is also famously known as – ending political career of Sajjan kumar and Jagdeesh tytler main preparators of 1984