Rahul Has Significantly Matured as Politician: Amartya Sen

BOLPUR: Describing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as a man who has “significantly gained maturity” over the years, Nobel laureate economist Professor Amartya Sen felt the leader’s true test would be how he led the Opposition in Parliament during the current regime of Narendra Modi-led NDA government.

The nonagenarian also opined that Rahul’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has not only shaped him as a national leader but also enriched the country’s political landscape.

Talking to PTI in an exclusive interview at his ancestral residence in Bolpur in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Sen recollected how Rahul, as a student at Trinity College in Cambridge, was unsure about “what he wanted to do” in life given that “politics never quite appealed to him then”.