In his book, Obama offered a more positive assessment of another figure in Congress, former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom the former US president has also publicly praised.
Archive image of Rahul Gandhi and Barack Obama. Twitter @RahulGandhi
Former US President Barack Obama in his memoirs has compared Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi to an unfortunate student, in a scathing comment about the dynastic scion that twice led his party to crushing electoral defeats.
In the book, A promised land, released Tuesday, Obama writes that Gandhi has “a nervous and reportable quality about him, as if he were a student who had done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but lacked the aptitude deep down. or the passion to master the subject, “according to a review in The New York Times.
Rahul led Congress in the 2014 and 2019 general elections, which resulted in decisive victories for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party.
Rahul, 50, has long fought to combat perceptions that he is not interested in becoming prime minister, a position held by his grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi, both of whom were murdered.
He spent his younger years studying and working in the United States and Great Britain before returning to India with the expectation of leading Congress, the party that has led India for most of its years since independence.
Rahul has aggressively attacked Modi’s government on charges of stoking communalism and favoring business interests, but commentators have often described him as an unnatural politician.
In his book, Obama offered a more positive assessment of another figure in Congress, former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom the former US president has also publicly praised.
Rahul is not the only international figure to receive Obama’s colorful prose, according to the review.
Apart from Singh and Gandhi, Obama has referred to Prime Minister Modi in a separate writing: a short profile from 2015 that appeared in Time: “Prime Minister Modi recognizes that more than one billion Indians living and succeeding together can be an inspiring role model for the world.”
He describes the striking former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, as “with his chest stretched out like that of a rooster.”
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