The Accidental Prime Minister
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3.8
Sanjaya Baru
When The Accidental Prime Minister was published in 2014, it created a storm and became the publishing sensation of the year. The Prime Minister’s Office called the book a work of ‘fiction’, the press hailed it as a revelatory account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first term in UPA. Written by Singh’s media adviser and trusted aide, the book describes Singh’s often troubled relations with his ministers, his cautious equation with Sonia Gandhi and how he handled the big crises from managing the Left to pushing through the nuclear deal. Insightful, acute and packed with political anecdotes, The Accidental Prime Minister is one of the great insider accounts of Indian political life.
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Author
Sanjaya Baru
Pages
320
Publisher
Penguin UK
Published Date
2015-07-05
ISBN
9351186385 9789351186380
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"A little laborious read, if you are following-up the politics of India for the last decade. It is laborious not because of the style of writing but the content. The entire book tries to say that Manmohan Singh is an honest, gentleman politician and an able economist, became a prime minister but could not wield his power because omnipotent Sonia controlling him and the government.<br/><br/>Manmohan Singh's vision on external affairs and relationship with Pakistan is really a key take away for me from this book. His vision that the borders cannot be changed and it can be made irrelevant is really an impressive thought and its a pity that he could put it in action because of various political reasons in India as well as Pakistan.<br/><br/>But apart from the above, all other things discussed in the book is nothing phenomenal. We knew that he was crippled by the coalition politics and his puppeteer was Sonia. This books goes in elaborate ways to corroborate this."
Santhosh Guru