Jaswant Singh Book on Jinnah

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Gujarat high court ruling today setting aside the August 19 Gujarat Government notification banning Jashwant Singh's controversial book glorifying Mohammed Ali Jinnah and blaming Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel for India's partition is certainly a blow to the Narendra Modi Government but it doesn't affect its public standing on that account in a State where Sardar Patel is like a God.

The fact that the Gujarat Congress had supported the ban in contravention of its natioinal stand on the book and one of the top Congress leaders, Union Minister Dinsha Patel, had in fact called for a countrywide ban on the book more than proves the point that the HC ruling is largely against the public view held in Gujarat and therefore doesn't affect Modi Government's public image at ground level. The Sangh Parivar cadres in fact view the HC ruling as being against the spirit of the people of Gujarat and the ruling might have brought the cadres closer to the Government which had been facing problems while dealing with them, thanks to pressures of Governance.  <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->