Islamabad, August 28: Insisting that a federal India was the dream of both Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi, former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has said that the country would have been “a global power” now had it not been “cut up” to form Pakistan.
Singh, whose controversial new book ‘Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence’ led to his expulsion from BJP, repeated his claim that first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru along with the then Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the Congress party had contributed to the partition of the Indian subcontinent.
A federal India was the dream of both Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi but “we let the country be cut up. Patel and Nehru agreed to what Jinnah demanded but in a truncated form. Today we would have been a global power,” he said in an interview to Pakistan’s ‘Dawn News’ channel.
–PTI