Tota Singh faces protests in New York

Chandigarh: Punjab minister for NRI Affairs, Tota Singh took a shoe from protesters in New York during his visit. Singh and other Shiromani Akali Dal leaders were scheduled to address a meeting at Richmond Hill in the Queens, but had to face hundreds of Sikhs protesting the visit by pelting stones. The standoff between the people and Singh’s delegation continued for more than three hours when a heavy contingent of New York Police was summoned at the scene. “The North American Sikh groups are opposing SAD (Badal) for their failure to convict Indian police officers, who were involved in extra judicial killings of thousands of innocent Sikhs during counter insurgency operations in early 1990s,” a source said.