Jay Leno Gag Enrages India's Sikh Community

This is surely a first. In the wake of a very poorly chosen photo to support a January 19 Mitt Romney gag on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, India’s ambassador to the U.S., Nirupama Rao, has promised to “take the matter up with relevant authorities in Washington.” That information comes from Tom Wright, New Delhi-based South Asia correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

There is also a Facebook protest group, all because a Leno staffer selected for the Romney summer home joke a picture of the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.

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