India to complain to US over TV host Jay Leno joke

India will formally comlain to the US regarding the joke by US TV host Jay Leno in which he said that the Golden Temple in Amritsar was a summer home for wealthy presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Indian Minister Vayalar Ravi said the joke by "The Tonight Show" host as "quite unfortunate and quite objectionable" and said that the Indian embassy in Washington would raise the issue.

The Hindustan Times wrote that angry members of the Sikh community in the US circulated an online petition protesting the "derogatory depiction" of the Golden Temple, adding that "Jay Leno's racist comments need to be stopped right here".
  
Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Ravi said he had not watched the show himself, but that the Sikh community in the US had lobbied him to take action against it.
  
"Freedom does not mean hurt the sentiments of others... This is not acceptable to us and we take a very strong objection for such a display of an important place like Golden temple," Ravi was reported to have said.
 
The petition has currently garnered about 2,000 signatures. A Facebook group calling for a boycott of Leno has amassed nearly 3,000 followers.

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