The controversy created by Sanjaya Baru and his book 'The Accidental Prime Minister' refuse to die out. On Monday, the Prime Minister's ex-media advisor sought to soften the blow he had dealt to the Prime Minister's Office.
"The PM tried his best given his political limitations. He was like Bheeshma of The Mahabharata, not Dhritarashtra. My book is about UPA I, not UPA II. During UPA I, he was certainly not 'blind'," Baru said.
Baru, however, repeated his claims that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had the final say in everything in the UPA government and that it was a "reality that the PM came to terms with".
"Arjun Singh, Pranab Mukherjee regarded themselves as the PM's political seniors and (former National Security Advisor) MK Narayanan owed his job to Sonia," Baru added.
After Baru, a former coal secretary too repeated what Baru said, in a tell-all book wherein he says that Dr Singh was heading a government in which he had "little" political authority.
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In 'Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths', to be released on Tuesday, PC Parakh recalled an incident when he had gone to meet the Prime Minister on a farewell call after submitting his resignation to the then Cabinet Secretary BK Chaturvedi.
The 68-year-old author had submitted his resignation after a BJP MP insulted him during a Parliamentary Standing Committee meeting and there was no response from the government.
Parakh said that the Prime Minister expressed anguish but asked him to continue, saying that he faced similar problems everyday.
"I do not know if the country would have got a better Prime Minister if Dr Manmohan Singh had resigned, instead of facing the humiliation of his own ministers not implementing or reversing his decision," Parakh wrote. "By continuing to head a government in which he had little political authority, his image has been seriously dented by 2G scam and coalgate although he has had a spotless record of personal integrity," he observed.
Parakh while referring to the conversation with Singh said it had become clear that there was little chance of lasting reform in the coal sector with the limitations within which the Prime Minister functioned.
(With inputs from PTI)
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