Shoe hurled at Arvind Kejriwal in Rohtak; Delhi CM blames PM Modi

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, January 1, 2017: A person hurled shoe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a public function in Haryana’s Rohtak district.

The incident took place while Kejriwal was giving a speech at ’Tijori Tod, Bhanda Phod’ rally, where he questioned the demonetisation move of the Centre.

An anti-demonetisation rally was planned by the Aam Aadmi Party at Rohtak, where Kejriwal raised doubts about the stated motive of the demonetisation of high value currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000.
   
While Arvind Kejriwal questioned the demonetisaion move announced on November 8 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a shoe came flying towards the Delhi Chief Minister.
   
However, the shoe fell short of the stage, Kejriwal was delivering his speech, but it caused a little chaos and panic among the security personnel and Aam Aadmi Party supporters present there.
   
Policemen went after the shoe-thrower, but Kejriwal appealed to them to let the offender go free. Kejriwal said, "Let him go. He is a Modi Bhakt."
   
But, the AAP supporters captured and thrashed the shoe-thrower before handing him over to the police.
   
The accused was later identified as Vikas Kumar of Dadri district. He was taken to the Urban Estate police station.
   
Later, Arvind Kejriwal took to twitter to lash out at the PM saying that he would continue to expose ’the note ban scam’.
   
Kejriwal tweeted, "I had said that Modi is coward. Today, he got his men to hurl shoe at us. Modiji, even we can do this, but our values don’t allow us."