Willing to impress…’: The book on Rahul Gandhi by Barack Obama.

Key Points: 

• A Promised Land,” scheduled for public release next week.
• Obama put in the book regarding leaders he met and communicated with during the eight years of his presidency.
• The former President seemed to write about Sonia Gandhi glowingly but in the study.

Former US President Barack Obama found MP Rahul Gandhi of Congress “willing to impress” but lacking “the skill or the passion” to mastering the subject.

As per the New York Times analysis: 

The former President writes approvingly in his highly awaited memoir of his years in the office about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was Obama’s first state guest at the White House, and former congressman Sonia Gandhi.

The observations are from the study, whether indirect quotations or paraphrased, that ostensibly quotes from the novel, “A Promised Land,” scheduled for public release next week.

Obama, The first US president, to visit India twice:

What the former President felt or wrote about Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not listed in the study. They met several times as well as Obama made history, both times on PM Modi’s watch, first US president to visit India two time while in office, 2012 and 2015, as well as the first US president to attend the Republic Day celebration.

The Former President on Rahul Gandhi: 

According to a direct quote in the NYT review, the former President wrote that Rahul Gandhi, who met at least twice in 2015 and 2017, has nervous, unformed qualities about him, as though he’s a student who had done the coursework and also was eager to impress the instructor, but deep down he lacked either the ability or the passion for mastering the subject.”

From the study, which listed it among gossipy information that Obama put in the book regarding leaders he met and communicated with during the eight years of his presidency, 2009 to 2017, the context of this observation could not be determined.

Obama about Manmohan Singh:

The former President seemed to write about Sonia Gandhi glowingly, but in the study, there were no direct quotes from the novel. Obama wrote about Singh: “Security Secretary Bob Gates, as well as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh both, seem to have some form of impassive honesty.”