New Delhi, August 23: Sticking to his contention in his new book that Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a “great man” who has been “demonised” in India, Jaswant Singh has said his expulsion from BJP showed that the party was “narrow-minded”.
The expelled BJP leader said the party did not distinguish between Jinnah’s personal attributes as a human being and his politics while taking a decision to sack him from the party for writing the book ‘Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence’.
“I didn’t think the party is so narrow-minded…so nervous about Jinnah and Patel and to get so riled at what I have written. I have a feeling, which I voiced also, that perhaps my former colleagues had not really read the book when they passed the sentence,” he told Karan Thapar on ‘Devil’s Advocate’ programme of CNN-IBN.
–PTI