Lucknow: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was quick to blame the RSS and BJP after a shoe was thrown at him during a rally in Sitapur district of poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
"A BJP and RSS worker attacked me when I was heading for my rally. I would like to tell them that they can keep attacking me but I will continue fighting. I won't back down," he said.
The BJP was quick to denounce the shoe-throwing incident and accused Rahul Gandhi of copying AAP’s modus operandi of blaming others and trying to get political mileage out of the incident.
“Rahul's JHOOTE PAR JHOOT. Blaming BJP shows his desperation. Has Cong begun to stage events like AAP? Shoe throwing & political use condemnable," tweeted BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao.
The shoe thrown by Hariom Sharma, a resident of Shastri Nagar locality, flew past the Congress leader's head and missed him narrowly.
He was immediately detained by the police.
An eyewitness claimed to have heard Sharma say "roadshow is useless" after he threw the shoe at Gandhi.
The Congress leader has been on a poll campaign in the election-bound state.
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