‘Rahul Gandhi has nervous, unformed quality about him’, says Obama

Former United States President Barack Obama’s remark that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was like a pupil who is keen to impress however lacks aptitude to grasp the topic prompted a terse response from the Congress on Friday that it doesn’t touch upon “an individual’s view in a book.”

Mr. Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land, that was reviewed by The New York Times (NYT), talks about political leaders from the world over, together with Mr. Gandhi.

According to the NYT assessment, talking about Mr. Gandhi, the previous President wrote that the Congress chief has “a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject.”

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh additionally discover a point out within the memoir.

“We are told of the handsomeness of men like Charlie Crist and Rahm Emanuel, but not the beauty of women, except for one or two instances, as in the case of Sonia Gandhi,” the NYT assessment stated.

Dr. Singh and former U.S. Secretary of Defence Bob Gates, each come throughout as having a sort of emotionless integrity, the assessment acknowledged.

As a number of TV networks picked up Mr. Obama’s feedback on Mr. Gandhi, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted, “May I humbly remind certain overzealous friends of the Media running a sponsored agenda that we don’t comment on individual’s views in a book. In the past, a Leader has been called “psychopath” and “master divider” by folks and businesses. We didn’t acknowledge such feedback!”

“May I remind media friends that in the past too, a sitting President had made uncharitable remarks about a sitting women PM of India. INC & its Govt continued to work in National Interest unfazed and Bangladesh & Green Revolution happened. INC shall continue to serve similarly,” he stated in one other tweet, referring to former U.S. President Richard Nixon feedback towards former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with out naming them.

While Congress common secretary Tariq Anwar asserted that Mr Gandhi has advanced, social gathering’s ’ Lok Sabha MP Manickam Tagore unfollowed Mr Obama on twitter.

(With inputs from PTI)