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Obama likens Rahul Gandhi to a kid lacking aptitude or passion trying to impress a teacher

November 13, 2020
The Commune

Former US President Barack Obama has come out with his latest memoir titled “A Promised Land” in which he has opened up about several political leaders from around the world.

A review of the book carried by the The New York Times has thrown some excerpts about what the two time former POTUS thought of the leaders around the world which includes former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

About the former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Obama said he was a man of ‘impassive integrity’. “Secretary of Defense Bob Gates and the Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh both come across as having a kind of impassive integrity,” the New York Times quoted  from the book.

However, Obama’s likened Rahul Gandhi as an inept student. He says in his book “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.”

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had met Barack Obama when the latter visited India in 2017. He had taken a picture and shared it with the caption “Had a fruitful chat with President @Barack Obama. Great to meet him again.”

This has now come as a severe setback to the image of the Congress leader who is already referred as ‘Pappu’ (a child). The Congress leader is believed to be in Jaisalmer on vacation following the humiliating defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections and in the by-elections held across the country.

Barack Obama’s remarks on Rahul Gandhi has now set social media on fire with ‘Pappu’ and ‘RaGa’ trending.