India: Congress Blames Spiritual Guru for Shoe Hurling At Nehru-Gandhi Scion

NEW DELHI (NNN-Xinhua) -- India's ruling Congress party has blamed a leading spiritual and yoga guru, Baba Ramdev, for a shoe attack at Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi at a rally in the northern state of Uttarakhand Tuesday.

Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said this to the media Tuesday.

A man, identified as Kuldip, hurled a shoe at Gandhi while he was addressing a rally in Vikasnagar in Uttarakhand yesterday. The shoe fell 10 meters short of the 41-year-old Congress leader, according to the police. The man has been arrested.

The supporters of Ramdev have also been blamed for blackening with ink a portrait of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the mother of Rahul Gandhi, at the party's headquarters in Delhi last week. -- NNN-XINHUA