A man was detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur on Monday for hurling a shoe at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The shoe did not hit Gandhi, who blamed the BJP-RSS combine for the incident. Yet Gandhi was holding road shows and khat sabhas in UP, Mishra alleged, referring to the Congress leader’s campaigns in the poll-bound state. He also alleged that Congress had failed to deliver when the party was in power at the Centre. Soon after the incident, Gandhi hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological parent, the RSS.

Source: Hindustan Times September 26, 2016 09:35 UTC