Is Stern Face the Sign of a Leader?: Vijay Rupani's Daughter on His 'Soft Image'

Radhika Rupani took exception to those who had opined that the her father's soft spoken nature led to his unseating.

A day after the resignation of former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday, 11 September, the politician's daughter, Radhika Rupani, took exception to those who had opined that her father's soft nature had led to his unseating.

"Yesterday I read a news headline – Vijaybhai's soft spoken image worked against him. I have to ask a question to them, shouldn't politicians keep sensitivity, decency? Isn't it a necessary quality we need in a leader? Soft spoken image is a personality that people of all levels of society can come and meet easily? Where there is a matter of bullying or crime, they have taken strict steps. From CM dashboard to land grabbing act, love jihad, GUJCOCA, liquor ban is the proof, but roaming with serious and heavy face all day is the sign of the leader?"

Radhika Rupani