Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday denounced the mention of Rahul Gandhi as a “student eager to impress the teacher” in the forthcoming memoirs of former US President Barack Obama.
Raut also said that comments from leaders who said Obama’s comments were accurate were “in bad taste.”
“A foreign politician cannot give such opinions about Indian political leaders; The subsequent internal political discourse on this is unpleasant. We will not say ‘Trump is crazy’. How much does Obama know about this nation? “Said Raut.
The editors of Obama’s memoir, “A Promised Land,” said it provides insight into the dynamics of US partisan politics and international diplomacy. The New York Times has reviewed Obama’s memoirs, highlighting political leaders from around the world he has spoken of.
According to the review in The New York Times, Obama has called Rahul Gandhi “a nervous and informative quality about him, as if he were a student who had done the course work and was eager to impress the teacher, but deep down lacked the aptitude or passion to master the subject. “
The Speaker of Congress, Sonia Gandhi, and former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are also mentioned in Obama’s memoirs among other leaders. While Sonia Gandhi has been mentioned in the context that no one talks about the “beauty of female leaders”, Manmohan Singh is presented as someone who “seems to have a kind of impassive integrity.”
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