Last week, a 25-year-old man hurled a shoe at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (pictured) in Patna. The shoe did not hit Kumar, nor did it reach the stage where he was standing. Curiously, in all the shoe-throwing incidents recorded in India's political history, the shoe has always missed the intended target-be it when a journalist lobbed his shoe at then home minister P Chidambaram in 2009 or the same year when a 28-year-old man tried to hit then prime minister Manmohan Singh as he was addressing a rally. Even in 2012, a shoe thrown at then Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi during an election rally in Dehradun, landed some distance away.
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