Even if Rahul Gandhi does not become the President, whowever will be working as an attendant - Ghulam Nabi Azad

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad have made yet other explosive statement that, even if he(Rahul Gandhi) doesn't becomes(president), whoever becomes(president) will work like attender, carrying files, whom to make, whom not to make", he was answering to a question, do you think Rahul Gandhi shouldn't become Congress President?, in an interview to news agency News18.

Ghulam Nabi Azad’s explosion, on a day when it finalized the schedule for the party’s presidential polls, has rattled the Congress. After much delay, the polls will now be held on October 17.

Azad, who is now working on his tell-all autobiography, told News18.com: “Around 90% of the Congress is not Congressi. Some are picked up from colleges, some clerks of the CM have been given positions. I can’t argue with people who have no idea of their own history. I wrote a letter as the Leader of Opposition to Mrs. Gandhi even before the G-23. What did they do? They told me to coordinate with KC Venugopal. I told them he was in school when I was the general secretary. Then someone from the family said then speak to Randeep Surjewala. I told them, by the way, when I was the general secretary, Randeep’s father was part of the PCC. He worked under me. How can I discuss the party with his son? What are you saying, Rahul Gandhiji?”

The Congress hit back at the veteran leader Azad, saying he revolted only because he wanted a Rajya Sabha seat and wanted to retain the bungalow in South Avenue, in the heart of the national capital.

“What cooperation? Over what? He said why didn’t you say ‘chowkidar chor hai’? I told him this may be your language, not mine. Even Indira Gandhi never told us to say this to Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Rajiv Gandhi told us to go to homes of Opposition leaders. We can’t talk like this. We are not brought up like this.”

But Azad’s strongest attacks comes over the Congress’s barbs on him over the PM being emotional during the farewell speech in Rajya Sabha. “They pick on me over the bungalow. But they got bungalows by virtue of being family, while I got it because of being myself. I have had 26 assassination attempts on me. Have they faced this? I've been paying rent, electricity & water bills for it. Nothing is free.”