Politics | Updated Apr 10, 2009 at 03:15pm IST

Teacher hurls shoe at Cong MP Jindal

New Delhi: Throwing shoes at politicians seems to have become the easiest language of protest in this country.

After Home Minister P Chidambaram, it is now Congress candidate Naveen Jindal who faced the ire of a school teacher in Kurukshetra, Haryana.

Jindal was addressing a meeting at his constituency in Kurukshetra when a school teacher in the audience hurled a shoe at him.

It is still unclear why the shoe was thrown.

Reacting to the incident, Jindal said, “I was really surprised. But I have personally forgiven him. I have nothing against him.”

“It would be best that such incidents should not be given importance. This is no way to protest in a democracy,” he added.

The MP also told CNN-IBN that the man was “terminated from school for bad behaviour.”

The incident comes two days after a Sikh journalist threw his shoe at the Home Minister at a press conference in Delhi.

Jindal is the sitting Congress MP from the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency and is seeking re-election.

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