8. Rahul as an outspoken person
Rahul Gandhi is known to be quite out spoken. But at times he is caught in controversies over his statements. Rahul had once termed poverty ‘a state of mind'.
He once remarked that India is threatened more by the Hindu extremists more than Muslim militants and his remark was highly criticized.
After the Mumbai blast he commented that it becomes almost impossible to stop each and every terrorist attacks but the terrorist attack should be dealt at the grass root level and once that is achieved it will be more helpful.
To everyone's surprise, on 27 September 2013, Rahul Gandhi openly criticized Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government for coming out with an ordinance to revoke the order passed by Honorable Supreme Court of India which stated that convicted criminals could not contest elections.
Though his move was criticized by many for showing disregard to the then Prime Minister of India, his act was appreciated by others as the ordinance served to protect convicted politicians.