Modi doesn't talk to me, he greets in monosyllables: Rahul

January 08, 2019 20:37

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that he has never had any conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he does not talk to him. Rahul also said that PM Modi meets and greets in monosyllables. "He will say 'hello'," he said.

In an interview to Gulf News ahead of his United Arab Emirates visit on January 11, Rahul Gandhi said that he does acknowledge the lessons that PM Modi has given him.

Rahul also said that a lot of what PM Modi says about him comes from the anger he has. "For example, the frame he uses against my family, there is an element of that frame which is hatred and anger," Rahul said.

"And there is another element that says look, you come from a position where you have had certain advantages and it is true! I have to take into account that truth, I cant deny the fact that my family was in politics."

Rahul Gandhi said that he regrets that PM Modi fails to see the impact on his family after the "violent deaths of his grandmother Indira and father Rajiv", the pain that came with it and the lessons he learnt.

"Mr Modi has certain disadvantages and advantages. The biggest that Mr Modi has given me is that I listen now, I listen very deeply," he said.

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