Shimla, August 25: Himachal Pradesh will not go the Gujarat way and ban the book on Jinnah by expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh.
There is no plan to ban Jaswant Singh’s controversial book on Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the state, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said here today.
“Thousands of books hit the stands everyday. … Why should the state government bother about those,” he told reporters.
Of the six BJP ruled states, including Himachal Pradesh, only Gujarat has banned the book so far.
Desisting from making any comment on Singh’s book — ‘Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence’ — which puts responsibility for the partition more on Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhai Patel than on Jinnah, he said senior leaders have already expressed the party’s view on it.
–PTI