Following this, a letter was sent to Hooda from Sonia Gandhi in which she said the incident was a "matter of shame".
The Hooda government immediately went into an overdrive to announce compensation and other benefits for the affected Dalit families.
Now, Gandhi family son-in-law Robert Vadra, whose name has been linked by activist Arvind Kejriwal to suspect land deals with DLF, has left Hooda on the defensive.
Hooda, who is known to spend most of his time in New Delhi's political circles, is mostly dismissive of the controversies around him.
At media briefings, his favourite lines, when he does not want to answer questions, is "this is a hypothetical question" or "yeh kaisa sawaal hai" (what kind of question is this?).
With all that is happening around him, he now has a lot of answering to do.
