{"id":18458,"date":"2016-09-26T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=18458"},"modified":"2016-09-26T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:13:46","slug":"shoe-hurled-rahul-gandhi-unfazed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/shoe-hurled-rahul-gandhi-unfazed\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe hurled at Rahul Gandhi- unfazed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shoe was hurled at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday during a roadshow here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hariom Sharma, a resident of Shastri Nagar locality, flung his shoe from a distance at . Gandhi at Transport Crossing, from where the roadshow started. However, the shoe did not hit him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youth was immediately detained by the police and taken to the city police station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youth was heard saying \u201croadshow is useless\u201d, according to an eyewitness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prima facie, the youth has no political links, police said. The matter was being probed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18459\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rahul_shoe_647_092616025046.jpg\" alt=\"rahul_shoe\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahul was unfazed by the shoe incident. &#8220;I am not afraid of such attacks,&#8221; he said, blaming BJP and RSS for the act. While I was headed here, I was attacked by the people of BJP and RSS. I want to tell that that they can attack me as many as times as they want, I will not back down and will keep on fighting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress leader has been on a poll campaign in the election-bound state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There have been a number of shoe and ink attacks on politicians recently. This month, a shoe was hurled at Punjab revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia by Congress leader Tarlochan Singh in the Punjab assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, AAP leader Manish Sisodia faced an ink attack while Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had a shoe hurled at him in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shoe was hurled at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday during a roadshow here. Hariom Sharma, a resident of Shastri Nagar locality, flung his shoe from a distance at . Gandhi at Transport Crossing, from where the roadshow started. However, the shoe did not hit him. The youth was immediately detained by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[6751,243,6752,6753,6750,6754,6755],"class_list":["post-18458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-rahul-blames-bjp","tag-rss","tag-rss-for-shoe-attack","tag-shoe-attack","tag-shoe-hurled-at-rahul-gandhi-unfazed","tag-sitapur-district","tag-uttarpradeshedit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}