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Another shoegate at Kurukshetra Kurukshetra, April 10 Ram Bal, who was seated among the workers on the floor suddenly got up and tossed his shoe towards Jindal, taking everyone by surprise. The shoe fell far short of Jindal but it caused a lot of commotion and provoked the workers. Ram Bal who appeared to be in a drunken state was roughed up by the workers and thrown out of the meeting. Later the police took him to hospital for medical examination. As per the medical report he was under the influence of liquor. The police could not question him as he was not in an inebriated state and could not reply to the queries. Later police registered a case against him under Sections 451, 500, 504, 506
and 510 of IPC on a complaint filed by Ashok Kharkhari, president District Congress (rural). Jindal condemned the incident and said that creating a scene at political meets in a drunken state was not proper and against the spirit of democracy. He said that the his workers have told him that some opposition leaders were being named and cautioned that the opposition parties should exercise restraint and refrain from acts which vitiated the peaceful atmosphere during the polls. He said that he has been told that the person was seeking a pardon and he was prepared to forgive him if he was really sorry for the brazen act. Jindal asked the workers to maintain their cool and not get provoked by such tactics and left for Chandigarh after the workers meeting. Reacting to the comments of Jindal, the BJP-INLD candidate from Kurukshetra, Ashok Arora said that his party had nothing to do with the incident or the person concerned. Making false and unsubstantiated charges and linking his party with the incident simply indicated that Jindal was unnerved, he claimed. Ram Bal, who hailed from Kalayat, was residing in Sector 13 in Kurukshetra and appeared to have thrown the shoe in a fit of anger. Nothing against Jindal Kurukshetra, April 10 “I am annoyed with the Hooda government and this is my way to express my resentment and anger”, Ram told The Tribune at a hospital where his medical examination was being conducted. His grouse against the government was that the Chautala government had appointed his son as a data entry operator but when the Hooda government came to power, about 50 data entry operators, including his son, were terminated. “He took the job of my son”, Ram lamented and said what else he could do than exercising his democratic right. When asked that whether he was inspired by Jarnail Singh, a journalist who threw shoe at Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Ram replied in negative and said it was a sudden reaction on spur of the movement. “You do not need any inspiration when you are burning from inside and do whatever you deem fit at that particular movement” said the retired principal. He said he did not belong to any political party or group and had acted on his own.
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