* Party president says Jinnah played role in division of India
By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: Indian opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), officially dissociated itself on Tuesday from senior party leader Jaswant Singhâs book on Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, saying it âdoes not represent the views of the partyâ.
A day after the bookâs release, BJP President Rajnath Singh released a statement saying the views expressed by the former external affairs minister did not reflect the party position. âThe book authored by Shri Jaswant Singh does not represent the views of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In fact the party completely dissociates itself from the contents of the book,â it said.
Too well known: In his book, Jaswant has held Jawaharlal Nehru responsible for the partition of India, adding Jinnah has been unfairly âdemonisedâ in India. Rajnath underlined that Jinnah had played an important role in the âdivision of India, which led to a lot of dislocation and destabilisation of millions of peopleâ. âIt is too well known. We cannot wish away this painful part of our history,â he said. He also took objection to the ridicule of Sardar Vallabhai Patel by Jaswant, saying the countryâs first home minister had played an historic role in the unification and consolidation of India amidst serious threats to its unity and integrity. âThe entire country remains indebted and proud of all the profound vision, courage and leadership of Patel,â he said.
Earlier, BJPâs deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj had indicated that Jaswant Singhâs views on Jinnah would âcertainlyâ be the subject of a detailed discussion at the partyâs three-day brainstorming session in Simla due to begin today (Wednesday). âDenigrating Sardar Patel and eulogising Jinnah are views that are totally against the partyâs basic ideology and belief,â she was quoted as saying in a report published in The Hindu. There could be, and would be, no compromise on the party beliefs, she added.
Either BJP will re-invent itself or give the space to new ideas and new leaders. The problem seems to be they are not understanding who is stopping the BJP from getting power.
There are so many power center in BJP, one way its good to balance out issue but currently its acting as destructive forces.
Congress Power center is only in hand of 10 Janpath, who is sole owner of bank account number/purse.
This is the typical price that some one - or even a Parliamentarian - will have to pay if he speaks the truth. The entire nation is being hijacked the Nehru/Gandhi family - the royal stooges of UK. Anyone, dares to unearth any harsh truth abount Nehru and his family will summarily be removed from public life. Jaswant Singh's expulsion is not for flattering Jinnah, but more for blaming Nehru for partition. Nehru's Congress Party is pulling the string from behind the strings. Singh was not even given a hearing - which is provided even to war criminals in a democratic country. But what he has told is the truth. As anyone who knows the real history, being afraid that Netaji Subhas Bose may come back from hiding after the camouflage of Taihoku air crash (which even Taiwan Government and CIA confirmed last year to be fake), Nehru just did whatever it takes to grab the power. If that meant to break the nation or the spinal chord of the nation, so be it. This is how Nehru and his family has, is and will rule and ruin India.
Shame India! Shame Indians!
[The expelling of Shri Jaswant Singh from the BJP without even giving him an hearing is part of the Power game that is being played inside the BJP. There are two distinct groups that are competing with each other to have supremacy and control of the party. In this struggle, the ideology of the party or the future prospect of the party is of secondary importance.
It is rather too simplistic a statement to say that the expulsion is to please the Nehru family.Raj Nath Singh or so that matter the BJP parliamentary board are no great friends of the Congress. They feel that their action will bring back the Hindu vote bank tinto the fold of the party, thus without much effort they can improve their position in the next round of elections. How far this will transform into reality is an open question.
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Flaying BJP leaders for heaping praise on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Tuesday said calling the Pakistan founder secular was an insult to all those who shed their blood for India's independence.
"(L K) Advani created an ideological confusion by lauding Jinnah. Jaswant Singh has added to it," Thackeray said in an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana.'
"It is due to this ideological confusion that the Hindus became frustrated and directionless and the impact was seen in Lok Sabha elections," he said.
"How can a person who demanded a separate state for Muslims be termed secular?" the Sena chief asked and added that "calling Jinnah secular is an insult of all those who shed their blood for India's independence".
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08-21-2009, 12:19 AM (This post was last modified: 08-21-2009, 12:44 AM by acharya.)
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This should become the most famous book in India.
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New Delhi, Aug 20 (PTI) The CPI today demanded withdrawal of Gujarat government's ban on expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah saying the action "anti-democratic" and "reflects intolerance to non-RSS ideas".
"The ban only reflects intolerance to <b>non-RSS ideas</b>. :wink:
It is an anti-democratic decision," the party's Central Secretariat said in a statement.
Observing that CPI and many others may not agree with Singh's views in the book, it said "in fact, there is nothing common between Communists and Jaswant Singh. But in a democratic society, everybody has a right to put forth ideas and opinions as long as these are not against national interests.
"It is a pity that the shadow of RSS is totally covering the BJP like an eclipse after its humiliating defeat in the recent elections," the CPI said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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It is already top 1 on commie book list.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Jaswant Singh said there was a lot in Jinnahâs character that he personally admired stressing, in particular, the fact that Jinnah was a self-made man who had carved a position for himself in a metropolitan city like Bombay without seeking help or support from anyone else.
<b>âI admire certain aspects of his personality. His determination and the will to rise. He was a self-made man. Mahatma Gandhi was the son of a Diwan. All these (people) âNehru and othersâ were born to wealth and position. Jinnah created for himself a position. He carved in Bombay, a metropolitan city, a position for himself. He was so poor he had to walk to work, he told one of his biographers there was always room at the top but thereâs no lift. And he never sought a lift,â Jaswant Singh said.</b>
Asked if agrees with the view held by many in India that Jinnah hated Hindus Jaswant Singh said âwrong. Totally wrong. That certainly he was not - his principal disagreement was with the Congress Party .. .he had no problems whatsoever with Hindus.â
<b>Jaswant Singh said that India had not only misunderstood Jinnah but made a demon out of him and this was a direct result of partition.</b>
<b>âI think we have misunderstood him because we needed to create a demon - we needed a demon because in the 20th century the most telling event in the subcontinent was the partition of the country,â</b> he said.
When asked on Partition of India in 1947, Jaswant Singh said that if Congress could have accepted a decentralized federal country then, in that event, a united India âwas ours to attainâ. The problem, he added, was Jawaharlal Nehruâs âhighly centralized polityâ.
âNehru believed in a high centralized policy. Thatâs what he wanted India to be. Jinnah wanted a federal polity. That even Gandhi accepted. Nehru didnât. Consistently he stood in the way of a federal India until 1947 when it became a partitioned India.â
Jaswant Singh strongly contested the Indian view that Quaid-e-Azam was the villain of partition or the man principally responsible for it. Asked if he thought this view was wrong, he said âIt is. It is not borne out of the facts, we need to correct it.â
Speaking about the political demands enunciated by Mohammed Ali Jinnah on behalf of Indian Muslims prior to 1947, Jaswant Singh described them as demands for âspaceâ in a âreassuring systemâ where they wouldnât be dominated by the countryâs Hindu majority.
âMuslims saw that unless they had a voice in their own economic, political and social destiny they will be obliterated. That was the beginning (of their political demands), for example, see the 46 election. Jinnahâs Muslim League wins all the Muslim seats and yet they donât have sufficient numbers to be in office because the Congress Party has, without even a single Muslim, enough to form a government and they are outside of the government. So it was realized that simply contesting elections was not enough,â he said.
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<b>Jinnah and Jaswant, the BJPâs double-edged sword</b>
Whoever plotted to derail the BJPâs chintan baithak was an expert on human psychology, had an unerring aim and loads of experience in destabilizing a given situation. In a flawlessly crafted plot, what should actually have been the denouement of the prolonged intra-party homicidal infighting within the BJP, turned, as if with a conjurerâs sleight of hand, into a face-off between the BJP and the RSS. Not a small trick this.
Between 1997 and 2004 when the BJP was in power in Delhi, power brokers controlling the minds of guileless leaders in the RSS (guilelessness is not a virtue in any leadership), and who enjoyed free and unchecked access to the homes and offices of the BJP leadership, persuaded the RSS to accept serious deficiencies and erosions in character within the BJP with equanimity; the logic being - power corrupts but this must be seen as occupational hazard and after all the BJP is giving the RSS a soft-landing in Indian polity. No one in the RSS stopped this gentleman in his tracks then to ask him why the RSS needed a soft landing.
It is not within the purview of this column to go into details about the consequences of the RSS lowering the bar for the BJP but the end result was that the RSS leadership during that period did little to stop the rapid descent of the BJP from the superior heights of party-with-a-difference to Congress clone. Ideological relativism was condoned as inevitable trade-off for this political soft-landing.
In what proved to be an intellectually and practically counter-productive exercise, the RSS did not correct and even encouraged among ordinary swayamsevaks and seasoned pracharaks, the notion that power corrupts; and because this is being proved by the BJP, let us stick to man-making activities in the social, educational, medical and economic sectors. Let us abjure politics, bury our heads in the sand hope the BJP will go away. The results of one decade of RSS short-sightedness is there for all to see.
Hindu tradition has proved that the Viswamitra attitude that power corrupts, money corrupts and women corrupt is not the way to Brahmagyaana; and closing our eyes, ears, minds and mouth is not the sadhana towards becoming a Brahmarishi. The human mind, by its very nature is susceptible to influences; RSS man-making then must actually be mind-making of those who enter the challenging arena of politics. If Krishna is mistakenly referred to as a bhogi, then Janaka was a yogi; both lived in the thick of politics, both accepted the trappings of power with equanimity and both lived their lives doing only politics. The bhogi was only the veneer; the mind was yogic. This has been amply proved in our ithihasas by king after king after king. RSS mind-making of man must lead Viswamitra towards becoming a Janaka or a Srikrishna.
The new Sarsanghachalak both in his public address in Chennai on the 16th August and in his interview to an English news channel on the 18th, when he declared that the RSS intended to influence national affairs and also asked for the immediate end to infighting and instability within the BJP, signaled the reversal of decades long RSS policy to play ostrich. The Sarsanghachalakâs perfectly timed public address in Chennai and the interview to the news channel was intended to set the agenda for the BJPâs chintan baithak in Shimla â to put an end to the fratricidal war inside the party which led the BJP to its second electoral debacle and its complete rout.
Ending the self-destructive infighting was the first measure which alone would have made all other corrective measures possible. The fratricidal war had to end if the BJP had to sit down to analyzing why they lost the elections. An honest post-mortem, as things stand, is not possible given the fact that every leader has his daggers out to stick it into his own bete noire in the guise of apportioning blame. The BJP no longer has the comfort of a supine RSS leadership politely looking the other way, enthralled with the notion of soft-landing; it was confronting a man who meant business. Shri Mohan Bhagwat declared in the interview that he expected the BJP leadership to put an end to the infighting and the instability âimmediately. It has to stopâ.
The Sarsanghachalak also indicated that he expected the chintan baithak to enable the BJP to take stock of its failures and make amends, to restore its value system which made it a party with a difference. Implied in this veiled directive was that if heads had to roll, then heads will have to roll.
Contrary to motivated and planted stories in news channels that Jaswant Singh was removed under RSS orders, it was to subvert the agenda that the RSS Sarsanghachalak had set for the BJPâs chintan baithak that Jaswant Singh was removed in the completely graceless and needlessly dramatic manner. Someone in the BJP did not want a determined RSS altering the status quo; did not want any change in the power hierarchy, did not want introspection, did not want the causes for electoral defeat to be nailed and for blame to be laid at deserving doors. Some one wanted the RSS to be discouraged from having a say in the politics of the nation; someone wanted the RSS to stick to man-making in the social sector.
Jaswant Singhâs head rolled for all the wrong reasons. For Shri Ravishankar Prasad, the spokesperson of the BJP to pass it off as punishment for violation of a sacred ideological principle is farcical and foolish beyond belief. Had that been the case then Shri Advaniâs head ought to have rolled earlier for the same offence; Ms. Sushma Swarajâs head ought to have rolled for calling the Ramjanmabhumi issue an encashed cheque; and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi for refusing to build the temple because âthe BJP is not a construction companyâ should have been expelled just as promptly. Is not the Ramjanmabhumi an ideological issue too and is not Advani as guilty of the same offence as Jaswant Singh?
Jaswant Singh was the bali ka bakra. His head had to roll but his head ought to have rolled for different reasons and along with seven other heads. For those targeting the RSS and determined to keep the RSS out of politics, sacrificing Jaswant Singh was like sacrificing a pawn to get at the Knight or the Bishop or even the Rook (these are called âpiecesâ in the game of chess). The RSS and the decent elements in the BJP must understand that the brain which can sacrifice a pawn to get after a piece will sacrifice the piece to get at the Queen. When the Queen falls, the fall of the King is only a matter of time.
The Sarsanghachalak must begin to understand the rudiments of playing chess.
Jinna had a great vision to create reproduction system for muslims and increase the population and favor islam and also create a breading ground for terrorism to prove that god will take them to havens and provide many girls to play with. He felt that such system could not be created if he and his followers stay in india. He and his follower finally created a country and started such system. See u can what has it become now. their women were restricted to bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens only. they are just reproducting machines for them. These people got so suppresed and abused that every now and then they ran out of the country to seek refuge in other countries.
Jinna successfuly created a platform. U can see for ur self what pakistan has become now. They not only producing terrorists, they are using to other countries to kill people under the promise that they will find many girls in haven to play with. U know what kasab now is complaining that he could not find them in indian jail. he is pleading to atleat give pigs biriyanni. Look what has become now. they have come to a stay that every muslim around the world disassociate with them.
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<b>During his six-day stay, the BJP leader did not visit Jinnah mausoleum
# Cancels visit to Sehwan Sharif shrine after falling sick
# Visit to Mausoleum was never part of the itinerary, say personal staff</b>
ISLAMABAD: Political observers here are intrigued over the decision of the senior BJP leader, Jaswant Singh, not to visit the Jinnah mausoleum though he has been in Pakistan for six days and in Karachi for over four days. The visit of Mr. Singh to Karachi, where the mausoleum is located, was to have ended on Sunday morning as he and his team intended to leave for the Sehwan Sharif shrine back on their journey to India by road.
However, it appears that Mr. Singh cancelled his visit to the shrine after he developed fever and was advised by doctors to take a day's rest. It is believed that he would leave for Jagir on Monday to join the rest of his delegation. After a night's stay there, he would cross into India through the Khokhrapur border by road.
Mr. Singh's personal staff insist that the visit to Jinnah mausoleum was never part of his itinerary. It is in total contrast the statement attributed to Mr. Singh at his press conference in New Delhi prior to his Pakistan yatra and the remarks attributed to the BJP spokesman on the day he embarked on the trip.
At a press briefing on January 21, Mr. Singh was quoted as saying that he would be visiting the westernmost Shaktipeeth of Hinglaj Mata in Baluchistan by road through the Munnabao-Khokrapar route on January 30 and would be returning a week later after paying obeisance at the dargah of Shahbaz Kalandar and staying with his relatives in Jagir and Umerkote.
"Just as people who come here visit Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi, I will certainly go to Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah's mausoleum," he had told reporters in New Delhi.
"He is the Quaid-e-Azam of Pakistan. I am going to fulfil my duty as a guest and I cannot be disrespectful to them by refusing to visit as suggested by my hosts," he said.
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