Sunday, October 05, 2014

There cannot be two centres of power

The back cover page of The Accidental Prime Minister by Sanjaya Baru has the following.

'You see, you must understand one thing. I have come to terms with this. There cannot be two centres of power.' - Manmohan Singh

After reading the entire book, I found the following on the last page (excluding epilogue).

'You see, you must understand one thing. I have come to terms with this. There cannot be two centres of power. That creates confusion. I have to accept that the party president is the centre of power. The government is answerable to the party.'