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Former Congress person Shakeel Ahmad connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) called Rahul Gandhi a 'darpok' (coward) and an insecure person and claimed helium is lone promoting young leaders who sing his paeans successful the party.
Mr. Ahmad, who has been a erstwhile national curate and a enactment wide secretary, had discontinue the Congress aft the Bihar Assembly elections successful 2025. He has been a three-time MLA — 1985-90, 1990-95 and 2000-2004 — and doubly an MP, 1998 and 2004, from Bihar.
He said Mr. Gandhi finds himself uncomfortable successful the beingness of elder leaders who person a nationalist lasting and is frankincense promoting lone those who person nary base.
#WATCH | Delhi | Former Congress person Dr Shakeel Ahmad says, "There is nary interior ideology successful the Congress party...In the Congress party, immoderate Rahul Gandhi says is final..." pic.twitter.com/zjomb88YFM
— ANI (@ANI) January 24, 2026Calling Mr. Gandhi "dictatorial" and "non-democratic", Mr. Ahmad claimed helium does not perceive to elder colleagues successful the Congress and is "convinced that the enactment cannot spell beneath the fig 2 presumption owed to its nationalist presence".
Noting that Rahul Gandhi mislaid Amethi erstwhile helium was the Congress president, Ahmad claimed that helium could not adjacent triumph the spot erstwhile nurtured by his forefathers and household owed to his attitude.
While erstwhile Congress president Sonia Gandhi "converted Rajiv Gandhi's Congress and that of Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri arsenic her own, Rahul Gandhi failed to person adjacent Sonia Gandhi's Congress into his own," Ahmad told PTI.
"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," Mr. Ahmad said.
The elder person besides said that helium did not find anyone claiming that their names were removed from the elector database during the Special Intensive Revision successful Bihar.
Seizing connected Mr. Ahmad's remarks, the BJP said that 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 said.
On Mr. Ahmad's assertion that helium did not find immoderate elector claiming their sanction was removed from the electoral rolls during the SIR successful Bihar, Poonawalla slammed Gandhi, alleging that the Congress person made "baseless" allegations of 'vote chori' to enactment the blasted of his party's decision successful the elections connected "others".
Mr. Ahmad had announced his resignation from the enactment successful November past year, citing differences with section enactment successful Bihar.
The seasoned leader, who is from Bihar, is simply a erstwhile Union curate of authorities for home, communications and IT and a erstwhile AICC wide secretary. He was the president of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee from 2000 to 2003.
He besides served arsenic a curate successful the Bihar furniture and held the wellness portfolio.
Ahmad is simply a doc by assemblage and a third-generation politician.
