Left leaning students attacked Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia with eggs and

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tomatoes to protest the Centre's "failure" to check price rise, but the edible missiles missed him.

According to an eyewitness account, some students, owing allegiance to CPI-M's student wing SFI, waved black flags and shouted "Montek go back" before hurling eggs and tomatoes at Ahluwalia as he was entering the Presidency College here to inaugurate a national seminar on economics. But they clearly missed their target.

SFI sources, however, denied that eggs and tomatoes were hurled, but said that a demonstration was held to protest price rise and also the Centre's failure to implement the Tapas Majumder report on higher education.

The country has been battling double-digit food inflation for long and the matter has already rocked the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament. There was no report of any arrest.