Shimla, August 19: Jaswant Singh, whose book eulogising Mohd Ali Jinnah has come under attack from BJP and the sangh parivar, was today expelled from the BJP.
The decision to expel Singh, a Lok Sabha member and a former Union Minister, was taken at the Parliamentary Board of the party which met here during the opening session of the three-day brainstorming session of the top leaders here.
BJP President Rajnath Singh, who had yesterday issued a statement totally distancing the party from Jaswant Singh’s book “Jinnah – India, Partition, Independence”, announced the decision to the media here.
“I had issued a statement yesterday that the party fully dissociates itself from the contents of the book. Today I put up the matter before the Parliamentary Board which decided to end his primary membership.
“So he has been expelled.
–PTI