In upcoming memoir, Barack Obama compares Rahul Gandhi to eager student lacking aptitude, mastery

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Former US president Barack Obama in his memoir has likened Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to a hapless scholar, in biting commentary on the dynastic scion who twice led his celebration to crushing election defeats.

Within the e-book, A Promised Land, that releases on Tuesday, Obama writes that Gandhi has “a nervous, unformed high quality about him, as if he have been a scholar who’d finished the coursework and was desperate to impress the trainer however deep down lacked both the aptitude or the fervour to grasp the topic,” in line with a assessment in The New York Occasions.

Rahul led the Congress within the 2014 and 2019 basic elections, each of which resulted in decisive victories by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

Rahul, 50, has lengthy struggled to fight perceptions that he’s not keen on changing into prime minister, a place held by his grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi, each of whom have been assassinated.

He spent his youthful years learning and dealing in the US and Britain earlier than returning to India with expectations of guiding the Congress, the celebration that has led India by most of its years since Independence.

Rahul has aggressively attacked Modi’s authorities on expenses of fanning communalism and favouring enterprise pursuits, however commentators have typically described him as not being a pure politician.

In his e-book, Obama provided a extra constructive evaluation of one other Congress determine, former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, whom the previous US president has additionally praised publicly.

Rahul just isn’t the one worldwide determine on the receiving finish of vibrant prose by Obama, in line with the assessment.

He describes France’s flashy former president Nicolas Sarkozy as having “his chest thrust out like a bantam cock’s.”