Chennai, Dec 9 (PTI) : Former Union minister V Narayanasamy on Wednesday said that he had held slippers for Rahul Gandhi out of courtesy to help him wade through a flooded street in Puducherry.
This after videos and images of Narayanasamy holding slippers to enable Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi wear them went viral.
On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi toured flood-hit regions of Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. During his visit to the Union Territory, regional Congress leaders, including Narayanasamy had accompanied him.

Among Rahul's tour pictures and videos was one showing Narayanasamy -- slightly bent -- and holding a pair of slippers for his leader to wear and it went viral.
A section of the media claimed that the former Union minister of state in Prime Minister's Office during UPA-II was holding Rahul Gandhi's slippers.
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