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Obama on Rahul Gandhi: A student lacking aptitude but eager to impress teacher

Rahul Gandhi and Barack Obama

Rahul Gandhi and Barack Obama

The 44th United States President Barack Obamas forthcoming memoir A Promised Land, which is due to be published on November 17, mentioned Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi as well. 

The memoir, in which Obama sketched several leaders of US and other nations, including that of India’s as well, coined Rahul Gandhi as a student who lacked the aptitude or the aptitude to master the subject, but was eager to impress the teacher.

Rahul Gandhi has a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who?d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject, Obama wrote. 

For Manmohan Singh, Obama wrote, Secretary of Defence Bob Gates and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh both come across as having a kind of impassive integrity. 

The former US President also commented on Sonia Gandhi’s beauty saying, We are told of the handsomeness of men like Charlie Crist and Rahm Emanuel, but not the beauty of women, except for one or two instances as in the case of Sonia Gandhi.

Several BJP leaders including Amit Malviya and Kiren Rijiju took a jibe at Obamas remarks on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in their Twitter feed. 

Rahul Gandhi had met Obama during his last visit to India in December 2017. In 2015, Obama was also the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations and had even co-hosted Mann ki Baat? with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A promised land is the first volume of a 768-page memoir written by Obama. Publication date for the second volume hasn’t been decided yet. 

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