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Manmohan slams Natwar's claim, calls it a marketing strategy
New Delhi, July 31 (IBNS): Slamming former Congress leader and ex-India foreign minister Natwar Singh, who said Rahul Gandhi prevented her mother Sonia from being the PM fearing for her life, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said private conversations should not be misused for capital gains.
He refuted all allegations that the UPA government sent files to 10 Janpath for approval.
Backing Sonia, Singh said, "There are some conversations that take place which should not be used for capital by people."
The Congress party on Thursday denied all allegations put forward by Natwar Singh.
"We deny all allegations made by Natwar Singh. It is regrettable that person who has enjoyed such important position has misused private conversation for the commercialization of the book," Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said she would write her own book to put facts in right perspective after a controversy over a forthcoming book by her own former party member and ex-India foreign minister Natwar Singh.
Speaking to NDTV amid the controversy, Sonia Gandhi told the channel: "I will write my own book and then everyone will know the truth."
"I am serious about this and I will be writing," she told an NDTV correspondent.
"This will only be the only way the truth will come out. I can't be hurt I have seen my mother in law riddled by bullets my husband dead. I am far from getting hurt with these things," she said referring to what Natwar Singh revealed.
"Let them continue to do this it will not affect me. They can continue to do this if they so please. But I can't be hurt, I am used to this attack," she said.
In a significant revelation, country's former external affairs minister (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 an exclusive interview to Karan Thapar on Headlines Today.
Manmohan Sing became the Prime Minister of the country in 2004 after the Congress came to power.
Natwar Singh made the remarks in reference to his forthcoming book "One Life is not enough: An autobiography".
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