BJP leader MJ Akbar calls Rahul a ‘spoilt child’; defends Modi, Bhagwat

Bengaluru, Sep 26: MJ Akbar, journalist-turned-Rajya Sabha member has described Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi a “spoilt child” of Indian politics.

Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, the national spokesperson for BJP said that Congress has been behaving with ‘complete irresponsibility’ under Rahul’s leadership and he is the country's ‘most prominent mislead’.

“He has no experience and instead of trying to be a leader he has become India’s most prominent mislead,” Akbar said, accusing the Congress of trying to mislead people with regard to foreign trips of their top leaders.

Referring to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comments on reservation, he said that the comments were “misunderstood and misconstrued”.

Denying the Congress’ allegations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not properly responded to the State’s request for an early resolution of the row, the BJP national spokesperson said: “The Congress says something here [in Karnataka] and something else there [Goa].”

“It is a complex country and we need to work together in a federal system,” Mr. Akbar said, adding that it was up to the Congress to get some view on what its units in the riparian States think about the issue.