New Delhi, April 22: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Wed mentioned US President Barack Obama’s praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in latest issue of time magazine and referred to as it a “first time”.

The Congress vice chairman, speaking as shortly because the hour started within the lower house, said: “I was at the Congress president’s (Sonia Gandhi) house and i saw Time magazine… Obama ji has written a protracted article laudatory Modi,” said the Gandhi descendant.

“It is maybe initial time in sixty years the US president has praised somebody like this,” he said.

Obama has written a profile of Modi, titled ‘India’s reformer-in-chief’, for Time magazine.

He writes that Modi’s life story – his rise from poverty to become India’s prime minister – is symbolic of the country’s dynamism and potential.