Anyone fantasising of Rahul Gandhi as PM doing best to keep Modi there: Akhtar to Khurshid

Days after veteran Congress leer Salman Khurshid seemingly proclaimed ex-party chief Rahul Gandhi as 'once and future king of democracy,' veteran Bollywood screenwriter Javed Akhtar has given a rebuttal to former Union Minister, terming his oxymoron as 'utterly patic'. In a short but unsparing tweet, Akhtar remarked that anyone who 'fantasizes' about Gandhi scion as Prime Minister is doing his 'best' to keep Prime Minister Narendra Modi in power 'forever'. While Akhtar maintained Rahul Gandhi can be 'acceptable' as one of Opposition leers, he shunned argument for him to be anything more than that. 

Akhtar's no-nonsense tweet comes a couple of days after BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra schooled Khurshid for proclaiming former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his son Rahul as 'once and future king of democracy'. In response to Khurshid's odd proclamation, Patra h reminded former MP that India is a democracy and not a dynasty. BJP leer claimed that Khurshid has intricately pointed out difference between dynasties and democracy. Patra highlighted that democracy does not have kings, as proclaimed by Khurshid, but inste dynasties have kings. 

In same tweet, Sambit Patra also took a dig at Salman Khurshid for fanboying over Gandhi family as he labelled former Union Minister as a 'durbari' of 'past kings and future clown princes'. Khurshid's remark came on day marking Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber on May 21, 1991, when he was at an election meeting at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nu. 

Rahul Gandhi's political career so far 

Rahul Gandhi, former Congress chief who holds power as an MP of Kerala's Wayan now, h lost Congress' bastion Amethi in 2019 General Elections and has seen his party reach ir electorally weakest point during his time at helm. With Rahul Gandhi as chief, Congress also suffered a drubbing in previous Lok Sabha elections, with Congress winning just 52 seats. dismal performance also forced Rahul Gandhi's resignation as party chief, and party is yet to hold polls for post, with Sonia Gandhi being appointed interim chief and remaining in position for over 1.5 years now. Gandhi also campaigned extensively in recently concluded Assembly Elections, with hopes of Congress being elected to power in some states. However, he inevitably tasted failure once against as grand old party faced a drubbing in West Bengal, Assam, and Kerala - 3 out of 4 states where elections were held in 2021. 

Congress defers party chief's elections, again 

Earlier this month, Congress Working Committee (CWC) yet again deferred polls for Congress President for third time, reby allowing Sonia Gandhi to continue as interim party chief. CWC which h huddled up virtually on May 10 to discuss drubbing faced in recent assembly elections 'unanimously' decided to postpone elections for party president citing prevailing COVID-19 situation in country. dressing a press conference later in day, AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal said that party unanimously has opted a resolution to defer elections to early September.