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What did @BarackObama think about @RahulGandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh?

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Sonia, Obama writes, came across as “shrewd” and with a “forceful intelligence”, even though she “listened more than she spoke” and was “careful to defer to Singh when policy matters came up”.

She also steered the conversation towards Rahul often.

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.@RahulGandhi appeared to be “smart and earnest”, Obama says, with “good looks resembling his mother’s”. But there was also a “nervous, uninformed quality about him”.

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Towards the end of the evening, @BarackObama noticed Manmohan was fighting off sleep, he writes, and it occurred to him that the Indian prime minister looked older than his 78 years.

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“Would the baton be successfully passed to Rahul, fulfilling the destiny laid out by his mother and preserving the Congress party’s dominance over the divisive nationalism touted by the BJP?” @BarackObama wrote.

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His experience of the dinner made Obama doubt whether this plan would work – but Singh could not be blamed for the future his party was unprepared for.

“Like me, he [Singh] had come to believe that this was all any of us could expect from democracy."

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