Jaswant book

Jaswant Singh writes in his book ‘For, along with several other there is one central difficult that India, Pakistan, Bangladesh face: our ‘past’ has, in reality never gone into the ‘past’, it continues to reinvent itself, constantly becoming our ‘present’, thus preventing us from escaping the imprisonment of memories. To this we have to find an answer, who else can or will?’

In this so-called largest democracy in the world people are not free to speak their mind. By expelling Jaswant Singh BJP is trying to set an example for the people to come and I am sure they will not dare to speak a word in the favour of anything Pakistani! A loud and clear message of BJP’s intolerance is conveyed by this action.

Thirty years is a life time! A visibly emotional Singh said that he was sad that his 30 years of association with BJP has come to such an end but felt he could have been told not to come to Shimla.

Describing his expulsion from BJP as “saddening and regrettable”, Jaswant Singh today said that he will not appeal against the decision or seek any review though he felt that the party did not follow procedures. He also made it clear that he did not regret writing the book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah and stood by whatever he has written on the “painful period of history”.

“I have committed no sin. None whatsoever against India,” he said. Recalling that he was among those given positions of responsibility in the party by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, Singh said “I’am of course saddened by the way I have been expelled after having worked for the party with dedication for 30 years. I have served the party to the best of my ability.”

In 2005, then BJP chief Advani got into trouble when, during a six-day visit to Pakistan, he spoke of Jinnah’s `forceful espousal of a secular state in which every citizen would be free to practice his own religion`. `I have not said or done anything in Pakistan which I need to retract or review,` he said then and described the founder of Pakistan as one of the “very few who actually created history`.

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