Name: Rahul Gandhi is a source of immense disappointment: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Uploaded: 2013-09-22T10:57:35+05:30
Description: Pratap Bhanu Mehta said that there is a big surge created by the Congress leadership which will push Narendra Modi ashore.

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New Delhi: Noted academic and political thinker Pratap Bhanu Mehta has said Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is a source of immense disappointment on a couple of fronts as he doesn't reflect big ambition for India. 
 
While speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Mehta said that there is a big surge created by the Congress leadership which will push Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi ashore. 
 
Here is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: 
 
Karan Thapar: Now the Congress party considers Rahul Gandhi as their great beacon of the future, their great hope for the country. Are you impressed by his performances as an MP over the last nine years that we have known him? 
 
Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Frankly, he has been a source of immense disappointment on a couple of fronts - 1) There is almost nothing in what he does or says, and such little as he says and does, that actually reflects any big ambitions for India. Well it's almost a kind of defeatism that we are destined to remain a poor country. What we need as a poor country is to give more palliatives to the poor people. 
 
Karan Thapar: Now the BJP looks upon Narendra Modi as the salvation of the country. Do you share that? 
 
Pratap Bhanu Mehta: I personally don't share that but I have to admit I think there is a big surge on the ground in favor of Narendra Modi. It's not so much to do with his qualities, it's a surge created by the vacuum that people are experiencing in the Congress leadership and that sense of vacuum is actually profound. I mean the Congress will create the wave that actually pushes Modi ashore.

Rahul Gandhi is a source of immense disappointment: Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta said that there is a big surge created by the Congress leadership which will push Narendra Modi ashore.

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Rahul Gandhi is a source of immense disappointment: Pratap Bhanu Mehta