Rahul Gandhi's 'cheat sheet' goes viral. Twitter takes his class
In Parliament on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi responded to Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's attack with an acrimonious counter that also included digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress vice president apparently made notes of his talking points, which was captured by an alert photographer.
The Telegraph newspaper carried a photo of Rahul Gandhi's cheat-sheet and the scribbles were familiar, all in English. Some phrases were word-for-word what the Congress leader said in the Lok Sabha, for example: "Log PM Modi ko sunna chahte hai. Who unki rai janna chhate hai..."
What drew many comments on social media was the fact that Mr Gandhi jotted down his Hindi phrases in English, and that he even made a note of his reference to the "three monkeys of Gandhi." Read more here.
Twitter reactions:
Super photo journalism by Prem Singh of Telegraph....Zooming into Rahul Gandhi's speech points paper https://t.co/VuxWZG81yJ
— J Gopikrishnan (@jgopikrishnan70) August 13, 2015We shld stop mocking Rahul Gandhi. This is wht happens when he tries to talk without a cheat sheet (or inspite of it) http://t.co/sCENx3DfuE
— Vande Mataram (@UnSubtleDesi) August 13, 2015Pic 1: Rahul Gandhi's essay Pic 2: Rahul Gandhi's speech Samething. No difference pic.twitter.com/3Si3pHYiuW
— VibhaSekhar (@VibhaSays) August 13, 2015Pic1: Rahul Gandhi past handwriting (cursive) Pic2: Yday (Capital) Experts should say if both can come from 1 person pic.twitter.com/utskbQbXU8
— ------------- (@bwoyblunder) August 13, 2015More brutal than Sushma's speech is this speech paper which rahul gandhi was holding, zoom and read the contents ???????????? pic.twitter.com/7S3FfnHR2K
— Ankit Jain (@indiantweeter) August 13, 2015Rahul's cheat sheet goes viral. Clearly @OfficeOfRG prefers Roman Hindi to Devnagri. Thinks in English, speaks Hindi pic.twitter.com/GpnlwKcGen
— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) August 13, 2015If @OfficeOfRG continues to think in English while speaking in Hindi, he can never win debates against @SushmaSwaraj pic.twitter.com/CBIIWq07zv
— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) August 13, 2015So Rahul Gandhi reads Hindi in Roman! Prem Singh, The Telegraph photographer's third eye sees it all. Gr8 observation pic.twitter.com/OqjfcKfJ65
— GAURAV C SAWANT (@gauravcsawant) August 13, 2015Rahul Gandhi carrying a note for speech is okay, but he needs to note down details of even 3 monkeys of Gandhiji? That's Rahuler than Rahul.
— Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) August 13, 2015Brilliant front page photo today of Rahul Gandhi's speech pointers by The Telegraph's Prem Singh. pic.twitter.com/7qMvUzPmae
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) August 13, 2015Rahul Gandhi carries a cheat sheet for even rhetoric .. that too in bold capital letters .. https://t.co/Zvqfvl44cL
— shilpi tewari (@shilpitewari) August 13, 2015Priceless !! @ttindia caught #RahulGandhi's cheat-sheet on camera ::)) Says much about his IQ. LOL. #SushmaVsGandhis pic.twitter.com/9rZlRlIye9
— GhoseSpot (@SandipGhose) August 13, 2015Rahul Gandhi's cheat sheet story is scarily close to the plot of one of the episodes of The Thick of It.
— IndiaSpeaks (@IndiaSpeaksPR) August 13, 2015