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Congress leaders slam Obama over Rahul comment

By The Assam Tribune

NEW DELHI, Nov 13 - After Rahul Gandhi was referred to as a �nervous� leader by Barack Obama in his book, the Congress chose not to comment on it officially, though party leaders on Friday criticised the former US President.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, �May I humbly remind certain overzealous friends of the media running a sponsored agenda that we don�t comment on the individual�s views in a book. In the past, a leader has been called �psychopath� and �master divider� by people and agencies. We didn�t acknowledge such comments!�

Many Congress leaders objected to the remark. �Mr Obama, no one can know the personality of any person in 5 to 10 minutes. Sometimes it takes years . You are wrong to judge the personality of Rahul Gandhi ji. You will bite the dust just wait for some time,� said party spokesperson Udit Raj.

Acharya Pramod Krishnan was more critical of Obama, saying �He has hurt the sentiments of crores of Congress workers who consider Rahul Gandhi as God.� �Those who speak truth are incompetent and those who speak lies are competent and how did Obama knew that he is a bad student, was he with him in the class.�

Krishnan also termed Obama an �andh bhakt�.

Party leader Archana Dalmia tweeted, �We don�t need a Barack Obama to pass a judgment on �Our Leader� Rahul Gandhi.�

Gandhi had met Obama on many occasions, the first in November 2010 when Gandhi was the general secretary of the party, and second when Obama visited India in 2017.

Obama�s new book A Promised Land lands a sharp left hook on Rahul Gandhi�s �nervous, uninformed quality� while directing warm, not-so-political praise at Rahul�s mother Sonia Gandhi, according to a book review in the New York Times. � IANS

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