Shoe hurled at Rahul in UP

Shahira Naim

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, September 26

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today came under a shoe attack as he was riding in an open-top vehicle through Sitapur town during his campaign for the UP Assembly elections.

Targeting the BJP and RSS, Rahul said he was not going to be frightened and would continue his campaign. “You can throw as many shoes at me as you want. You RSS and BJP people have a lot of anger inside you. There is no anger inside me. Get as angry as you want to, I will continue with my task. None of your anger can dissuade me,” he said. 

Rahul was near Transport Chauraha when the shoe came flying at him. It hit the hand of former Union Minister Jitin Prasada, who was standing just behind him.

The incident occurred on the first day of the second phase of his Deoria to Delhi ‘Kisan Yatra’, which started from the Lucknow airport this morning. The accused, Hari Om Mishra, claiming to be a journalist with a news channel, was nabbed and detained at a nearby police station. He said he was angry at Gandhi not waiving farmers’ debt and halving power tariff during the 60 years of Congress rule.