I can also compare myself to Marlon Brando: Raj Babbar

Congress MP Raj Babbar today took a swipe at Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav for challenging Rahul Gandhi following the defeat of his wife Dimple Yadav in the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-elections.

"This could be personal for anybody. I can also compare myself with Marlon Brando or Robert De Niro...Everybody has right to say anything," he said in reply to a question whether Akhilesh Yadav was comparing himself to Rahul Gandhi when he said he was ready to accept the challenge thrown by Gandhi in UP.

Asked further on this comparison between the two youth leaders, who are called 'Yuvraj' by their respective supporters, the new Congress MP said, "I don't know who calls whom Yuvraj, but my leader is Rahul Gandhi."

He also took a dig at the SP general secretary Amar Singh saying he may not be proving useful for the party.

"I had seen him putting a mask on his mouth. It looks his health is not okay. Naturally when one's health is not correct, one cannot think properly...he may not be proving useful for the party," Babbar said when asked to comment on Amar Singh yesterday reportedly writing a letter to the SP chief saying he wants to distance himself from the candidate selection process in Uttar Pradesh.

Babbar, a former SP leader developed serious differences with Singh before he quit the party and joined Congress.