Indore: On Monday, Senior Congress leader Sam Pitroda lambasted the detractors of Rahul Gandhi saying that Rahul Gandhi is a highly educated and intelligent person and that the country needs young leaders like him. While speaking to the media at the Indore Press Club, he said that contrary to what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been calling Rahul Gandhi from the past 10 years, he has great confidence in him. "He (Rahul Gandhi) is not Pappu. He is a highly educated, intelligent young man and India needs such young leaders," he said. He further said that India needs leaders who are well-versed in technology than those who all are about 'jumlas'.
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He said that he has spent a lot of time with Rahul Gandhi as well discussing how to take the country forward. Mr. Pitroda then shifted focus to PM Modi's blistering attack on Rajiv Gandhi where the PM called the late Congress leader "corrupt number one". "The baseless comments that the country's current Prime Minister has made yesterday about former premier Rajiv Gandhi makes me feel ashamed as a Gujarati. I belong to the same Gujarat where Mahatma Gandhi was born. I am pained to see people hailing from Gujarat (referring to PM Modi) falling to such an extent that they lie in such a way about a dead person," added Sam Pitroda.
He also slammed the EC for not acting against the controversial statements made by Prime Minister Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Before claiming that several comments made by the BJP leaders violate the model code of conduct, Pitroda remarked that the ruling BJP has "hijacked" the country's democracy.
