Richard Nixon | Congress Reminds Media Of Nixon’s Comment On Indira Gandhi, Says ‘Liberation Of Bangladesh Happened After That’


Randeep Singh Surjewala

‘Congress will not comment on an individual’s views in a book’

Key points

  • ‘May I remind friends in the media that in the past too, an incumbent president had made uncharitable remarks about a sitting PM from India.’
  • ‘INC and its government continued to work in the national interest undeterred and Bangladesh and the Green Revolution succeeded’
  • The former president of the United States also wrote about the beauty of Sonia Gandhi

New Delhi: Congress, already bruised, beaten and shocked, after its dismal performance in the recently concluded Bihar assembly elections, was left embarrassed after former US President Barack Obama in his new memoirs. ‘A promised land’ he described Rahul Gandhi as someone who is “eager to impress” but “had neither the aptitude nor the passion” to master the subject.

Shocked by this revelation and Obama’s personal observation of the former president of Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala in a tweet reminded the media that they said in the past that a sitting United States president made uncharitable comments about a sitting woman. as Prime Minister of India, but the liberation of Bangladesh and the Green Revolution. it happened.

“May I remind friends in the media that in the past too, a sitting president had made uncharitable comments about a sitting PM from India. INC and its government continued to work in the national interest undeterred and Bangladesh and the Green Revolution ensued. INC will continue to serve in a similar way, ”Surjewala said in a tweet.

Sponsored agenda, says Surjewala

In another tweet, Surjewala accused the media of having a “sponsored agenda” saying the party will not comment on an individual’s views in a book.

In an indirect reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Surjewala said that in the past a leader has been called “psychopath” and “master divisor” by people and agencies.

The review of Obama’s memoir by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was published in The New York Times.

In his book, Obama has also called Manmohan Singh “having a kind of impassive integrity.”

‘Rahul Gandhi lacks the aptitude or passion to master the subject’

“Rahul Gandhi has a nervous and reportless 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,” he says the review citing Obama.

A promised land It will be published later this month and sheds light on Obama’s personal and political life.

Nixon had called Indira Gandhi “old hag” and “bitch” and had also labeled the Indians as “slippery and treacherous people.”