"Politics is not a part time job, it is a full time job. I don't think Rahul has the fire," Mr Singh said in an interview to NDTV, adding, "He may not be a great politician but he is a very good person."
Mr Singh also said he hoped Sonia Gandhi would write a book "sooner than later." The Congress president had said yesterday, in an angry response to Mr Singh's autobiography, that she would "write my own book and then everyone will know the truth."
Mr Singh said, "I am glad that Sonia Gandhi has said she will write a book. She should."
Mr Singh had earlier alleged that Mrs Gandhi's decision to not take up the post of Prime Minister in 2004 was not because of an "inner voice" as she had famously said, but because of opposition from her son Rahul Gandhi, who was reportedly worried that she would be assassinated like his father Rajiv Gandhi and grandmother, Indira Gandhi, both former Prime Ministers.
He also describes Mrs Gandhi as "authoritarian" and "Machiavellian."
The 83-year-old, seen as close to the Gandhi family for many years, was a senior Cabinet minister when he had to resign from the Congress-led coalition government in 2005 after allegations of corruption. He quit the party in 2008.
In his interview to NDTV, he also raised Sonia Gandhi's Italian origin, saying that an Indian would never have treated him the way she did.
"Rajiv Gandhi wouldn't have done what Sonia Gandhi did to me," he said.
He dismissed Congress allegations that he the book was his revenge.
"Bitterness and revenge are not a part of my character," he said.
NDTV
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