India BJP expels Jaswant Singh for saying Quaid Azam Jinnah was A Great Leader

SHIMLA, India Indias opposition Hindu fundamentalists expelled senior figure Jaswant Singh Wednesday over his book praising Pakistans founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah who is widely blamed in India for the 1947 partition.
Singh is a founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which completely dissociated itself from the book Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence,and expelled him unceremoniously through a telephone call.
The book portrays the Quaid-e-Azam (Great Leader as Jinnah is remembered in Pakistan) as a great personality and holds Indias first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress party responsible for the partition of India. In it Singh says Jinnah has been demonized in India.
In a television interview aired over the weekend, the 71-year-old party veteran, a former foreign minister and member of parliament, said he had chosen the controversial leader as his subject because Jinnah had an intricate, complex personality of great character, determination.
Singh, a former Indian Army major who had voluntarily retired without pension to work for the BJP over the past 30 years, also rejected the popularly-held view that Jinnah was a Hindu basher and solely responsible for the dismemberment of undivided India.
I dont think it was dismemberment. He wanted space for the Muslims, he told the CNN-IBN channel.
Nehru believed in a highly centralized polity, Singh has been quoted as saying. Thats what he wanted India to be. Jinnah wanted a federal polity.
BJP president Rajnath Singh announced Singhs expulsion to reporters in the northern hill resort of Shimla where the party was meeting for a brainstorming session in the wake of its drubbing in the national elections earlier this year.
None of the BJP party leaders attended the launch of the book in New Delhi Monday evening. Reacting to his expulsion, Singh said he was saddened immensely that his ouster was triggered by the fact that he had written a book.
You can dispute what I write, but the day you start questioning thought, start questioning reading, writing, publishing you are entering a very dark alley, he warned. I am convinced in my mind I have committed no sin.
The furor over the book goes to the heart of a debate in India about blame for partition of the British-ruled subcontinent into Pakistan and India which sparked communal riots that left up to a million dead. Hindu-majority India and Muslim Pakistan have fought three wars and been at loggerheads since their emergence as independent states.
The subject of Jinnah has always ruffled feathers in the BJP and the current head of the party, Lal Krishan Advani, offered to resign after he sparked controversy by lauding Jinnah as a great man and a secular leader in 2005.

Advani was sent a copy
Jaswant Singh revealed Wednesday that he had sent advance copies of his controversial book both in Hindi and English to Advani and Rajnath Singh. The ousted leader said there was no reaction or hint of things to come, which made his expulsion even more painful and shocking.
Analysts say that with Singhs mentor former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee fading out and Advani himself weakened by political defeat and party infighting, Singh could be trying to position himself as a liberal neo-centrist politician while taking a potentially crippling shot at the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty-ruled Congress by holding it responsible for the partition.

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[shahidm09]

Ye hai india democracy.....lolz

We are Proud of our Quaid.

[ashfaq72]

shame on BJP on expelling a leader from party in this way

shows that

[hotbooy1976]

Jaswant Singh is a smart man. Calling Jinnah a great man was a metaphor for how worse was nehru. I cannot disagree more that Jinnah was definately more honest than nehru...nature of ambitions and differences in opinion apart. nehru was more keen to get rid of jinnah than jinnah was to get rid of india. jinnah atleast didnt create a dynasty in pakistan in the name of democracy. everyone got a chance. Army generals, local leaders, ISI, thugs, American agents..all got a chance to loot pakistan.

[saloogee84]

all i can say india got some ppl who think and not lunatic and biased.

and i fully agree with him thats closing of channel of thought. we can kill history.

hands up for jaswant singh.

[MAYOGARDENS]

Quaid-e-Azam was the gratest leader in the history of modern times. He creared a Nation and a Country in his lifetime. Allah blessed pakistan to become an independent nation. Thank You the great Quaid-e-Azam. Lahori Munda From New York

[suhailjunejo]

All the indians and BJP leaders are the biggest racist of the world.

[rathore1267]

An HONEST LEADEDER of BJP who has been expelled by THE NO CALLED PRESIDENT of bjp rajnath singh. p.s.rathore ,rajasthan, india

[TheEuphony69]

@vegard555

go fuck yourself you nasty pig. If Pakistan mind its fuckin business most of the issues disappear. Stupid govts are in power because of idiots like you

[TheEuphony69]

@shahidm09

What the hell you know about democracy. It is an internal affair of BJP. This has nothing to do with country's democracy

[equinox031]

see? thats the point. terrorists dont belong to any country, they are just perverts. the enemies of humanity. not a particular people. and people like these spoil the reputation of all the othr people belonging to thier nation too.

[teekadada]

indian cant hear the trust..........

[MsJj95]

Hey, I don't know much about him! You tell me.