Before being whisked away, the attacker told reporters that last week he had tried to hit the former telecoms minister Sukh Ram. Sukh Ram had been found guilty of accepting a bribe and sent to jail for five years. Reports at the time said a young man had been restrained by police when he tried to attack the former minister as he left the court en route to jail after his conviction.
In the last few years, a number of high-profile members of the government have been assaulted in India. In , a Sikh journalist hurled a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram for the government's failure to punish those behind the anti-Sikh riots of Profile: Sharad Pawar.
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