PM says he was not consulted on CBI's clean chit to Tytler

A day after Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar were dropped as candidates for Lok Sabha polls by Congress, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he was neither informed nor consulted over CBI's clean chit given to Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

"I was not informed, not consulted" over CBI clean chit to Jagdish Tytler, Singh said during an interaction with women journalists organised by Indian Women Press Corp here.

"Congress decision to cancel tickets to Tytler and Kumar shows party's sensitivity to Sikh sentiments," he said, adding "better late than never".

The action against Tytler came with the Congress fearing a Sikh backlash in the elections as the issue came under spotight with a Sikh journalist lobbing a shoe at home minister P Chidambaram at a press conference on Tuesday.
 
He was protesting the clean chit by CBI to Tytler in the riots cases.