Thursday, August 13, 2009

Nehru divided India, not Jinnah: Jaswant Singh

Nehru divided India, not Jinnah: Jaswant Singh

Published on Wed 12th Aug 2009 13:46:18

New Delhi, August 12 :

Jaswant Singh is in for trouble due to his soon to be released book about India’s independence struggle. In his new political biography of the man who is not considered less than a demon in India, Jaswant glorifies Jinnah as an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Jaswant Singh also goes on to term Nehru as one of the principal architects of India’s partition. He also writes that Jinnah did not win Pakistan, rather Nehru and Patel conceded Pakistan to Jinnah with help of the British.

The BJP leader supported his opinion saying that till 1945 Jinnah was seeking a solution to the problems between Hindus and Muslims. And consider it not as a communal problem but as the problem of a nation.

Earlier, Advani, senior leader of BJP also faced a lot of public and political scorn when he called Jinnah a great nationalist.

This book can evoke serious contempt from the leaders of RSS which has zero tolerance against the Pakistani leader and is likely to cause turmoil in Indian politics.


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