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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:09:00 +0000
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: FW: Jaswant Sing's Expulsion : A wrong Reading of History--Asia Post editorial dated 21.8.09
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> Jaswant Sing's Expulsion : A wrong Reading of History
>
> Inernational news agencies have reported from NEW DELHI that the BJP
> expelled the former foreign minister Jaswant Singh from the party
> following his recent book praising Pakistani leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah,
> DawnNews reported.The BJP president Rajnath Singh told reporters in
> Shimla that his party's parliamentary board decided to expel Singh from
> the primary membership of the party.'Yesterday, I issued a statement
> about the BJP dissociating itself from Jaswant Singh's views. The party
> discussed the matter at the chintan baithak and it was decided to expel
> him,' AFP quoted Rajnath as saying.Singh'
> Partition, Independence,
> for the founder of Pakistan, and has stoked a storm of controversy.
> Conservative members of the right-wing BJP have slammed the publication,
> and had mounted a campaign to ostracize Singh, trashing the BJP with
> epithets such as the 'Bhartiya Jinnah Party.'He has been blamed for
> telling that Quaide Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was not only responsible
> for partition of India, Pandit Neheru and Mr Patel were also responsible
> for this.He also said that Mr Jinnah a modern and secular man.
>
> We are surprised at this development and shows the arrogance of BJP.It
> has expelled a senior leader of the party for a small reason.WhatJaswant
> Singh has said is nothing new. Mr Neheru and Mr Patel have been blamed
> by so many other writers including Maulana Abul Kalam Azad .Muhammad Ali
> Jinnah , of course , is the founder of Pakistan and he did give the two
> nation theory .He did say that Muslims are a nation in every possible
> sense and he drew this concept from the concept that all Muslims
> constitute an Ummah as said by the Prophet in the agreement of Madina.As
> such Mr Jinnah felt that where ever Muslims are a majority they have a
> right to form a state. However he agreed with the Cabinet Mission Plan
> of the British government in 1946 of one India with all political, civil
> , cultural and religious guarantees for the Muslims .This was also in
> line with Madina document where the Prophet established a joint state
> with Jews with all rights to each community of the State of Madinah. We
> think Mr Singh is a victim of injustice.People differ on historical
> interpretation and there is nothing wrong in it.
>
> Mr Jinnah was not, however , a secular man, as has said by Mr Singh. How
> can a man who created a state on the basis of Islam and who highlighted
> the two nation theory on the basis of religion can be said to be a
> secular person? Only one speech by him in Auguast 47 in the Parliament
> can not be interpreted out of context of the then violence going on at
> that time in India and Pakistan. No other statement of Mr. Jinnah
> justifies this assessment.
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