Former US President Barack Obama found Congressman Rahul Gandhi “eager to impress” but lacking “aptitude or passion” to master the issue.
In his long-awaited memoirs of his years in office, the former president writes approvingly about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was Obama’s first state guest at the White House, and former Speaker of Congress Sonia Gandhi, according to a New York Times review. .
The remarks, either in direct quotes or paraphrased, come from the review he apparently quotes from the book “A Promised Land,” due out next week.
The review did not mention what the former president thought or wrote about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They met multiple times, and Obama made history as the first US president to visit India twice during his tenure, in 2012 and 2015, and as the first US president to attend the Memorial Day celebrations. the Republic, both times under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi.
The former president wrote that Rahul Gandhi – they met at least twice – in 2015 and 2017 – has “a nervous and reportable quality about him, like he’s a student who has done coursework and is eager to impress the teacher but in the fund lacked the aptitude or passion to master the subject, ”according to a direct quote in the NYT review.
The context of this observation could not be determined from the review, which included it among the gossip details Obama put into the book about the leaders he met and interacted with during the eight years of his presidency, from 2009 to 2017.
The former president appeared to write enthusiastically about Sonia Gandhi, but there were no direct quotes from the book in the review. About Singh, Obama wrote: “Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seem to have a kind of impassive integrity.”
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