04-27-2009, 11:21 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Shoe attack on PM in Gujarat, misses him</b>
PTI | Ahmedabad
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday became the latest target of a shoe attack during the current election campaign when a computer engineering student hurled a sneaker towards him but it fell short of the dais from where he was addressing his first poll rally in Gujarat.
Shortly after the incident at the Tagore hall ground here put the SPG and other security personnel in a tizzy, the prime minister did not want the police to register any case against the shoe thrower identified as Hitesh Chauhan, a 21-year-old resident of Bapunagar pursuing a computer course in a local engineering college.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
PTI | Ahmedabad
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday became the latest target of a shoe attack during the current election campaign when a computer engineering student hurled a sneaker towards him but it fell short of the dais from where he was addressing his first poll rally in Gujarat.
Shortly after the incident at the Tagore hall ground here put the SPG and other security personnel in a tizzy, the prime minister did not want the police to register any case against the shoe thrower identified as Hitesh Chauhan, a 21-year-old resident of Bapunagar pursuing a computer course in a local engineering college.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->