Never had a conversation with PM Modi: Rahul Gandhi

In an interview with Gulf News, Rahul said: “[Modi] doesn’t talk to me. He meets and greets in monosyllables… he will say ‘hello’."

However, Rahul admits he has had things to learn from the Prime Minister.

“Mr Narendra Modi has a lot of anger and a lot of what he says about me comes from that anger. But there are certain things that he says which I listen to. For example, the frame he uses against my family… there is an element of that frame which is hatred and anger. And there is another element that says ‘look, you come from a position where you have had certain advantages and it is true! I have to take into account that truth, I can’t deny the fact that my family was in politics,” he said.

The Congress president, however, hopes Modi could see through the privileges the impact on violent deaths of his grandmother Indira and father Rajiv - both former Prime Ministers - on him.

“What Mr Narendra Modi doesn’t see is the pain that has come, the violence that has come, the lessons I have learnt.. You are handed cards and in every card has two sides. Mr Modi has certain disadvantages and advantages. The biggest that Mr Modi has given me is that I listen now, I listen very deeply," he said.