Sleeper hurled at Dy CM Nitin Patel

Vadodara: A sleeper was hurled at Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel when he was giving byte to TV media persons gathered in Karoli village of poll-bound Karjan assembly seat constituency. Patel was giving byte when someone from his back side hurled a sleeper from some distance away. It was not known who hurled chappal. Even police and BJP workers present there were clueless about who hurled a chappal. Patel was giving byte to TV media after completing a campaign meeting in Karoli for BJP candidate Akshay Patel. Earlier eggs were thrown in BJP campaign meeting in Surat. Later Police revealed that Congress workers were responsible and arrested for throwing eggs. Gujarat is witnessing campaign for 8-seat by-polls of State assembly. All seats went vacant after then Congress MLAs resigned. Polling will take place on November 3.