New Delhi, Sep 15 (Inditop.com) His train journey from Ludhiana marred by an incident of stone throwing, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi reached the national capital Tuesday night without any other untoward incident.
The Congress leader, travelling by the Swarn Shatabdi Express, alighted at the New Delhi Railway Station at around 11.20 p.m. He was surrounded by security personnel and media persons.
Wearing a white kurta pyjama, Gandhi looked unfazed by the stone throwing incident that took place at around 9.45 p.m. when the train was passing near Gharounda town in Haryana.
“It is very unfortunate, it (stone throwing) should not happened,” said a woman passenger to reporters.
Another passenger echoed the sentiment, saying: “Yes, this should not have happened.”
The stoning took place between Karnal and Panipat stations in Haryana around 9.45 p.m.
Passengers travelling on the train said that coaches C-2, C-4 and C-7 were hit in the stone attack.
One stone reportedly even fell inside a coach.
Rahul Gandhi was aboard coach C-3 of the train and was not injured.
The 38-year-old Congress leader chose to travel by train as part of the party’s austerity drive because of the drought in many parts of the country. He was travelling by air-conditioned chair car.
The elite Special Protection Group (SPG) personnel accompanying Rahul Gandhi had immediately searched the affected coaches and directed railway authorities not to stop the train at Panipat junction.
Haryana is ruled by a Congress government led by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
The state goes to assembly elections next month.
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