The PMO released a statement the day The Accidental Prime Minister was released, dismissing the veracity of the memoir, "It is an attempt to misuse a privileged position and access to high office to gain credibility and to apparently exploit it for commercial gain. The government is answerable to the party." I have to accept that the party president is the centre of power. "There cannot be two centres of power", Baru remembers Singh explaining to him, "That creates confusion. Instead, significant power was wielded by the Congress party's president Sonia Gandhi, to whom Singh was completely "subservient". Published by Penguin India, the book alleges that Singh was not entirely in control of his cabinet-or even the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh is a 2014 memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, who was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media advisor from May 2004 to August 2008.
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