A shoe hurled at Rahul Gandhi at a Congress election rally in Uttarakhand

Dehra Dun (Uttarakhand, India), Jan 23 (PTI) A shoe was hurled towards Gandhi scion and Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi by a youth while he was addressing an election rally near here today, barely two days after a similar incident with members of Team Anna. The shoe fell 10 meters short of the Congress general secretary, Dehra Dun Senior Superintendent of Police G N Goswami told PTI. The youth, identified as Kuldip, was immediately taken into custody, Goswami said adding he was being interrogated. As the security personnel and Congress supporters grabbed Kuldip, Rahul was heard saying "Don't hit him". The shoe-hurling incident on Gandhi came two days after a similar attack on Team Anna here. A man identified as Kishan Lal had hurled a shoe when members of Team Anna, including Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi, were addressing a public meeting. Earlier, addressing a series of political rallies in this northern hill state of Uttarkhand which goes to poll on january 30 to elect a new state legislative assembly, Rahul attacked the Bhartiya Janata Party over the corruption issue. Now in the state on a second leg of poll campaign, Gandhi attacked BJP for adopting double standards on the issue of corruption. Rahul said, "They (BJP) say that we (Congress) are not serious in fighting against corruption. But they do not see corruption scandals done by their own governments in Karnataka or Gujarat or Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand. "Even the tainted ministers of Uttar Pradesh including Baburam Kushwaha recently removed by Chief Minister Mayawati joined BJP". The Congress leader also criticised the BJP government of Uttarakhand for misusing the central funds for their own interests. PTI