'Darpok, insecure': Former Cong leader Shakeel Ahmad's scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Former Union curate Shakeel Ahmad, who resigned from the Congress successful November 2025, connected Saturday launched a scathing onslaught connected elder enactment person Rahul Gandhi, calling him “darpok” (coward) and “insecure.”Ahmad besides described Gandhi, a erstwhile Congress president and the existent person of absorption successful the Lok Sabha, arsenic “dictatorial” and “non-democratic.”"Rahul Gandhi is simply a coward and an insecure person. He does not get that 'boss feeling' earlier anyone who is elder to him oregon has a large nationalist support. He is uncomfortable with immoderate specified idiosyncratic and is frankincense dictatorial and not democratic," Ahmad told PTI.The ex-Congress wide caput further highlighted however the Raebareli MP, who was enactment main during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, adjacent mislaid from his ain Amethi constituency, a accepted Gandhi household bastion, and attributed the decision to Gandhi's “attitude.”Ahmad, a three-time MLA and two-time MP from Bihar, besides claimed that helium did not travel crossed anyone alleging that their names were removed from the elector database during the Special Intensive Revision workout successful the authorities past year.The seasoned person resigned from the expansive aged enactment conscionable days earlier the results of the Bihar assembly election, successful which it won lone six of the 61 seats it contested arsenic portion of the RJD-led absorption alliance.

The ruling NDA swept the state.'Rahul Gandhi stands exposed': BJPSeizing connected Ahmad's remarks, the BJP said they person "exposed" Gandhi."Shakeel Ahmad has exposed Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi keeps showing that helium is the astir tolerant and antiauthoritarian person, but the world is thing else. He is the astir dictatorial idiosyncratic and has the aforesaid Emergency-mindset that Indira Gandhi had," BJP nationalist spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla posted connected X.

Responding to Ahmad's assertion that helium did not find immoderate elector alleging their sanction was removed from the electoral rolls during the SIR successful Bihar, Poonawalla slammed Gandhi, saying the Congress person made "baseless" allegations of 'vote chori' to displacement the blasted for his party's decision onto "others."