Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday denounced former US President Barack Obama’s comment that Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi was like a student who was eager to impress but lacked the ability. to master a topic, ANI reported.
Excerpts from Obama’s memoirs, A promised land, were mentioned in Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book review in The New York Times. The memoirs speak of political leaders from around the world, including Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
About Gandhi, the former president wrote that the congressional leader has “a nervous and reportable quality about him, as if he were a student who had done the course work and was eager to impress the teacher, but lacked the aptitude deep down. or the passion to dominate the subject ”.
Raut questioned Obama’s knowledge and said that a foreign politician cannot give such opinions about Indian political leaders. “The subsequent internal political speech on Obama’s comment on the congressional leader is disgusting,” he added. “We will not say ‘Trump is crazy.’ How much does Obama know about this nation? “
After several reports highlighted Obama’s comments on Gandhi, the congressional spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala Tweeted: “Let me humbly remind some overzealous friends in the media who run a sponsored agenda that we do not comment on individual opinions in a book. In the past, a leader has been called a ‘psychopath’ and a ‘master divisor’ by people and agencies. We did not acknowledge such comments. “
Surjewala was referring to Delhi’s Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “psychopath” in 2015. Last year, the Time The magazine had described Modi as India’s “chief divisor” on the cover of its May 20 issue.
Meanwhile, the leader of Congress, Tariq Anwar, said that Gandhi has evolved since the last time Obama met with him. “Obama and Rahul Gandhi must have met briefly, probably 8 or 10 years ago when he came to India as president of the United States,” he said. “Evaluating someone in a few meetings is difficult. Rahul Gandhi’s personality has changed since then, he has gained a lot of experience. ”
Lok Sabha MP Manickam tagore said he has unfollowed Obama on Twitter. “Reasoning your judgment on the Indian political leaders and the words against them are not acceptable to any true Indian,” he tweeted. “Will you also unfollow him?”
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