New Delhi:The Accidental Prime Minister’, former media advisor to PM Manmohan Singh Sanjaya Baru on today said that he was suggested by many to launch the book before 2014 General Elections otherwise the book would have lost its significance.
A lot of my friends whom I consulted said me that Manmohan Singh will be history after the elections. Nobody will be interested in him then,” Baru said, at the launch of the book The Accidental Prime Minister” here this evening.
Sanjaya Baru said, I feel Narsimha Rao deserved a memorial in Delhi. It was a vendetta against him and He also said Sonia Gandhi did not become Prime Minister (in 2004) as Congress’s allies would have never accepted her, so she chose Dr Manmohan Singh.
To the question why Manmohan Singh did not take a stand against the wrongdoings on his watch, as he took one in the case of Indo-US nuclear deal, Baru said his (Dr Singh’s) legacy was at stake on the nuclear deal, while it was not the same case on other issues.
He also commented that business was not the focus in UPA-1. “India was growing at average of 8.5 per cent for 6 years and hence business and industries was not the focus of the Prime Minister. Baru also maintained that though Singh himself once called himself “accidental PM”, “I believed otherwise. In my book, I have been a strong defendant of Singh.
Bureau Report
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