Jinnah was a secular man, says Jaswant
Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: Former Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has said that Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a secular man, and that he had initially opposed the division of Bengal and Punjab.

In an interview with Ejaz Haider on a private TV channel, Singh said that the BJP’s decision to expel him from the party has deeply hurt and disappointed him. He further stated that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hard-line Hindu nationalist group, was pulling strings in the BJP. The BJP expelled Singh from the party on August 18 after determining that his recently released book, Jinnah: India-Partition Independence, went against the core principles of the BJP’s ideology.

Singh said that India Today, a prominent magazine, got five eminent historians to determine who was responsible for the partition of India. The editor of the magazine, according to Singh, said that there was consensus among the historians that Jawaharlal Nehru, not Jinnah, was responsible for partition, and that his book was based on this consensus. Singh added that we need to re-examine history objectively and truthfully to figure out a path for the future.

Responding to a question, Singh said that Jinnah was forced to choose the option of partition, and that partition was an instrument to end all peace in the South Asian region. But, Singh added, “we can find a solution as we are all victims. We should know that no one will come back to restore peace for us unless we ourselves wake up…try and find out where we went wrong.” The veteran politician, now an independent member of the Indian parliament, concluded by stressing that “we must expand the constituency of peace in the region”.
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Jawaharlal Nehru, not Jinnah was responsible for partition Of India says Jaswant