Rahul more talented than Rajiv, says Khushwant

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is "much more talented" than his father Late Rajiv Gandhi who was "not really a leader" but "a boy scout" with some "good ideas but none of them extraordinary".

These are the views of maverick writer Khushwant Singh who compared the two leaders in his latest book Absolute Khushwant: The Low Down on Life, Death and Most Things in-between written along with Humra Quraishi, a columnist.

"He (Rahul) has a vision and that's very important. I'm impressed with him, impressed with the way in which he's conducting himself. He has the right attitude. Even if much of what he does only amounts to gestures, the thinking behind them is right," wrote 95-year-old Singh.

The grand old man of letters lauds efforts of Rahul for "taking on" Mayawati and Shiv Sena on their own turf and highlighting 'shameful' realities of the country by staying with ''lower castes and sharing their food".

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