Did Sonia Gandhi trespass into uncharted territory of the PMO?

April 15, 2014 08:50

Already battered by the rising popularity of the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the debate on who had the final word in the UPA '" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Congress president Sonia Gandhi '" could not have come at a worse time for the Congress party.

Two books, one by Singh's former media adviser Sanjaya Baru and another by former coal secretary PC Parakh, criticise the Congress party and the prime minister for undermining the institution of the PMO. While Parakh deals particularly with how transparency was compromised in allocating coal blocks leading to the coal scam, Baru's book focusses on how the prime minister played a subservient role to his political boss ignoring the sanctity of his chair.

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