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 railed 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. When asked whether he denigrated Vallabhai Patel in his book, Singh said: “I have simply pointed out facts of history. I haven”t denigrated any icon.
” The former BJP leader said he would have felt better if the party had not used the word “expel” and informed him in person. “I wish they had not used the word expel.
They had better choice of phrases. It hurt me when no one personally came and conveyed the decision.
Even Advani has not called me,” Singh said.
—–PTI–