New Delhi, Aug 24 (FP): In what could mean more trouble for the Congress party, Former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai has not only accused former prime minister Manmohan Singh of running away from his responsibilities during his tenure as PM in his much-awaited book 'Not just an Accountant', which will be released on September 15, but also alleged that senior UPA functionaries wanted to tamper with the reports of Coalgate and Commonwealth scams.

According to a CNN IBN report, after Manmohan Singh's former media advisor Sanjaya Baru and ex coal secretary PC Parakh made some revelations about the UPA regime under Dr Singh's leadership, Rai, in his yet to be published book has given details of Congress's response to the multiple scam unearthed during his charge as CAG.

Rai told CNN IBN, "The book will have details of how the ex-PM succumbed to what he himself once described as 'compulsions of coalition politics'. Everything cannot be sacrificed only to remain in power. Governance cannot be sacrificed at the altar of compulsion of coalition politics"

Rai has also said that he was put under tremendous pressure by the Congress during hearings of Parliament Accounts Committee in Parliament.

Rai has alleged that UPA functionaries deputed politicians to get him to leave out names from the auditor's reports on Coalgate and Commonwealth Games scams. However, Rai did not reveal the names of the delegates.

The book contains 15 chapters and also carries interactions of Rai with Manmohan Singh and other UPA functionaries.

Rai's book isn't the first tell-all tale of how the former prime minister was ineffectual PM. Former coal secretary P C Parakh, Manmohan's own media advisor Sanjaya Baru and one-time close confidant of Nehru-Gandhi family, former external affairs minister Natwar Singh have all written with similar accounts.

Sanjay Baru in his book 'The Accidental Prime Minister' revealed that the Manmohan Singh had accepted that Sonia Gandhi, as the head of the Congress party, had the final say in everything, while Parakh had alleged that Manmohan Singh’s authority in determining the process by which coal blocks should be allocated was undermined by former coal minister Shibu Soren and minister of state for coal Dasari Narayana Rao. Natwar Singh on the other hand details how Sonia Gandhi is "deliberately capricious, authoritarian, obsessively secretive and suspicious... She has behaved like a prima donna".