Mumbai, January 10: He might have got perilously close to facing disciplinary action in the BJP for siding with Jaswant Singh, but Arun Shourie does not share the expelled leader’s view on Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah whom he finds repelling.
“He unleashed the armed thugs shoring up the Muslim League in his Direct Action against the Hindus. He paralysed the interim government through Liyaqat Ali. From 1935 onwards, he worked stealthily and continuously with the British to thwart every scheme that might have preserved a united India,” Shourie says in his latest book.
In his 25th book titled “We Must Have No Price And Everyone Must Know That We Have No Price”, the former Editor of The Indian Express and The Times of India and ex-union minister “profoundly” disagrees with Jaswant Singh’s assessment of Jinnah.
–Agencies