Rahul Gandhi Slippers

After videos and images of former Union Minister V Narayanasamy holding slippers for Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi went viral, Congress lawmaker on Wednesday said he did that out of courtesy to help Mr Gandhi wade through a flooded street in Puducherry.

As Rahul Gandhi toured flood-hit Puducherry in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, the man who held a pair of slippers for him to wear was V Narayanasamy, Congress lawmaker and once a union minister attached to the Prime Minister's Office.

"Don't hurl shoes or slippers at politicians. If you don't like them, vote them out democratically," Baba Ramdev said in an appeal to voters in five states going to the polls.

After videos and images of former Union Minister V Narayanasamy holding slippers for Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi went viral, Congress lawmaker on Wednesday said he did that out of courtesy to help Mr Gandhi wade through a flooded street in Puducherry.

As Rahul Gandhi toured flood-hit Puducherry in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, the man who held a pair of slippers for him to wear was V Narayanasamy, Congress lawmaker and once a union minister attached to the Prime Minister's Office.

"Don't hurl shoes or slippers at politicians. If you don't like them, vote them out democratically," Baba Ramdev said in an appeal to voters in five states going to the polls.