How VC Shukla's quick-thinking driver saved his life

May 28, 2013 10:47

Veteran Congress leader V CShukla might well have met the same fate as his party colleagues Mahendra Karma and NandKumar Patel had it not been for his quick thinking driver's ability to speak Telugu.

Speaking to TOI from Raipur, Bala, who survived the attack with a bullet wound, said he began shouting in Telugu as the heavily armed Maoists approached the SUV - a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado - claiming that Shukla was a businessman returning from Andhra Pradesh.

The driver, who has been with Shukla for almost 10 years, hid the former Union minister's identity and maintained that Shukla was his 'Seth' caught in the Congress cavalcade but wasn't a politician. Read the full story on the TOI.

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