Row over book by PM's former media advisor Sanjaya Baru
A 201-page memoir called 'The Accidental PM: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh' by the Prime Minister's former media advisor couldn't have come at a worse time for the government. In the book, Dr Sanjaya Baru, who was the PM's advisor between 2004-2008, says PM Singh was 'defanged' in his second term in office and quotes Dr Singh as having told him that there cannot be two centres of power - an obvious reference to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Dr Baru says the PM made "the cardinal mistake of imagining the victory was his" in 2009. (Read more)
