Rahul a ‘darpok’, insecure leader: Ex-Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad

Key Highlights

• He said Gandhi finds himself uncomfortable in the presence of senior leaders who have a public standing and is thus promoting only those who have no base.
• Calling Gandhi “dictatorial” and “non-democratic”, Ahmad claimed he does not listen to senior colleagues in the Congress and is “convinced that the party cannot go below the number two position due to its national presence”.
• Noting that Rahul Gandhi lost Amethi when he was the Congress president, Ahmad claimed that he could not even win the seat once nurtured by his forefathers and family due to his attitude.
• While former Congress president Sonia Gandhi “converted Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress and that of Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri as her own, Rahul Gandhi failed to convert even Sonia Gandhi’s Congress into his own,” Ahmad told PTI.
• “Rahul Gandhi is a coward and an insecure person.