Watch: After shoe attack, Rahul Gandhi blames BJP-RSS, says he is not afraid

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was attacked with a shoe on Monday during his road show in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh.

Hariom Sharma, a resident of Shastri Nagar locality, flung his shoe from a distance at Rahul at Transport Crossing, from where the roadshow started. However, the shoe did not hit him.

The youth was immediately detained by the police and taken to the city police station.

The youth was heard saying "roadshow is useless", according to an eyewitness.

Local hurls a shoe towards Congress VP Rahul Gandhi during his road show in Sitapur(UP),detained by police pic.twitter.com/oU3YsB3Fru

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Responding to the attack, Rahul Gandhi said, "Want to tell BJP, RSS people...throw as many shoes on me as you want, I don't fear you". He also added that the shoe didn't touch him, but hurt the person next to him. He also added that one's anger is their weakness and he wasn't going to take it.

#WATCH: Congress VP Rahul Gandhi says "BJP, RSS throw as many shoes you want on me, I don't fear you...I am unaffected by it" pic.twitter.com/SqkOipDwZY

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Prima facie, the youth has no political links, police said. The matter was being probed.

Last week, sending out a message on equality of religions, Rahul Gandhi visited the important places of worship of all faiths and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not paying heed to the problems of farmers.

"We have been forced to take out this yatra to highlight the plight of farmers... They are not getting the right price of their produce... Farmers are with us, this yatra will go up to Delhi where we will organise a meeting and tell Modiji what is in the heart of farmers," he said.

(With PTI inputs)