Ex-CAG book claims UPA pressure on him, Congress hits back
The revelations triggered immediate condemnations from the Congress and other associate parties.
Rai's new book "Not Just An Accountant" to be released in October has such damaging sections for the Congress party and the UPA government, which has earlier been attacked by some more politician turned writers and former government servants like Natwar Singh and Sanjay Baru.
"Politicians came to my home and told me not to name some people and to protect some others in connection with the CWG and coal allocation reports," he told a major newspaper speaking on his forthcoming book.
"See the PM is the primus inter pares or the first among equals. He has to take the last call which sometimes he did, sometime he didn't," said Rai to the newspaper.
He told NDTV that he is not targetting anyone with the book but raised some basic governance issues.
Congress leader Manish Tewari calling it the latest bout of sensationalism, said was it not proper for him to bring it out to public notice when he was pressurized. "Was it not incumbent for him to bring it to the notice of the country and Public Accounts Committe then?" asked Tewari.
"Was this nugget of sensationalism deliberately saved for the post retirement plan of certain public servants, that is to write a book after they have demitted office and enjoy all the fruit and loaves of service," said Tewari.
Samajwadi Party P leader Naresh Agarwal said perhaps Rai now wants to be a part of the ruling BJP.
Earlier in a recent book former Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh said Rahul Gandhi prevented her mother Sonia from being the PM fearing for her life.
Natwar Singh (who was suspended by Congress and had to exit UPA government after the Volcker Committee Report on the Oil for Food scandal in 2005) Natwar Singh has claimed that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi did not allow his mother Sonia Gandhi from becoming the Indian Prime Minister in 2004.
Natwar Singh said Rahul Gandhi prevented the Congress supremo from taking up the top job in fear that she would be killed like his father and late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
"It was not her inner voice that prevented her, as she claimed at the time, to take up the PM's post but Rahul Gandhi said he would take every step possible to prevent his mother from becoming PM," Natwar Singh said in interviews.
Former media advisor to the Prime Minister Sanjaya Baru in his book The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh has claimed that Sonia Gandhi was the real mind ruling the government and not Singh.
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