Rahul's 'revenge' against Modi will fail, may adversely affect Congress instead: Jaitley

"His (Rahul's) revenge against Prime Minister Modi may not succeed. It may well turn out to be a revenge against the Congress," Mr Jaitley wrote in a blog piece.

Mr Jaitley referred to Mr Gandhi's statement that he has "dismantled Modi’s image” and said this was a 'give-away'.

"The only way a dynast with a little acceptability in the country can react to the commoner who defeated him is that ‘I will damage his image'. But how do you damage the image of a person who is riding perhaps at the peak of his popularity? How do you damage the reputation of a person who is known to be incredibly honest? Can image be destroyed by a person who belongs to a family which has been tainted through generations with charges of corruption?," Mr Jaitey wrote.

He further said: "How do you claim to have succeeded in damaging the image of a powerful personality where Prime Minister Modi’s acceptability ratings are close to 70% and Rahul is finding it difficult to even breach the 20% mark?"

In this context, Mr Jaitley further says: "It's clear that Rahul Gandhi concocts falsehood, as in the Rafale case, starts believing his falsehood to be true and eventually dreams that the falsehood has destroyed his opponent. He does not gauge public opinion. He only talks but does not listen. Such people surround themselves with advisors who have also tactically learnt to only give good news to the dynast."

The Union finance minister said Rahul prefers the politics of entitlement. He said: "Dynasts have a sense of entitlement. They believe that they were born to rule. Gandhis suffer from this sense of entitlement. The 2014 election was an utter shock to them. Losing to a person of modest origins and being reduced to the lowest ever strength in history, became unacceptable to the dynasty."

In a similar vein, Mr Jaitley wrote on Facebook: "The Dynastic self illusion of Rahul Gandhi has created a disproportionate image of his abilities in his mind and he believes that the universe around him thinks alike. Rahul Gandhi is no exception of megalomaniacs."