PMO blasts Sanjaya Baru's 'fictional' account of Manmohan Singh

The Prime Minister’s Office has criticised a just-released book on Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru, former media advisor to the PM in UPA-1, calling it “fiction” and “coloured.”Baru’s book, "The Accidental Prime Minister: The making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh", documents the relationship between Sonia Gandhi and Singh, and how the latter decided to take the rap for bad decisions taken by the political head in order to avoid giving the impression of there beint two power centres. (Read here).But the PMO is clearly not amused. [caption id="attachment_1476025" align="alignleft" width="380"] Singh has claimed Baru has misused his position. PTI[/caption]In a statement read out by the PMO’s current media advisor, Pankaj Pachauri, in Delhi, Baru’s book has been dismissed “as an attempt to misuse a privileged position and access to high office to gain credibility and to apparently exploit it for commercial gains. The commentary smacks of fiction and coloured views of the former advisor (i.e. Baru).”The statement also points to an earlier interaction that the PM had with senior editors, where Manmohan Singh is reported to have told them not to believe "all that he (Baru) is saying."