If PM had quit after Rahul incident, UPA regime would have collapsed: Baru

Baru also clarified that nowhere in his book has he said that PMO files were taken to Congress president Sonia Gandhi by the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Pulok Chatterjee. "I have not said that.. I said that she was briefed, and briefing does not mean showing the files.

"There is a fundamental difference.. to be made aware of policy decisions and to show files, that would be breach of the Official Secrets Act," he added.

Answering criticism that he had falsely attempted to show he was very close to the top powers and privy to all goings on, Baru said he had written the facts down "like a reporter". "This is what I saw. I was reporting what I knew. I was a fly on the wall often. The book is a view of the fly on the wall," he said.

Baru also said that Manmohan Sigh has not contacted him after the book's release, and added that he hoped the prime minister writes his autobiography.

The Prime Minister's Office has slammed the book saying it smacks of "fiction" and is a "coloured" view.