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Does BJP endorse Jaswant's views on Jinnah, asks Congress

Source: PTI
June 24, 2010 21:18 IST
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With the Bharatiya Janata Party taking Jaswant Singh back into its fold, the Congress on Thursday said the opposition party should explain to the country whether it endorses his views on Pakistan founder M A Jinnah.

"The BJP has become like a revolving door of a hotel. It throws out people outside at one time and brings them inside the next time," said party spokesman Manish Tewari.

"Though it is their internal matter, I want to ask the BJP that since they have re-inducted Jaswant Singh, whether they endorse the eulogisation of Jinnah in his book," he said.

Tewari added that the BJP should give an explanation to the country on the issue as "it was the same issue on which Jaswant Singh was thrown out of the party at Shimla".

Singh on Thursday rejoined the BJP ten months after he was summarily thrown out for writing a controversial book 'Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence' in August 2009.

While holding Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel responsible for partition, Singh maintained that Jinnah was secular, drawing the wrath of the Sangh Parivar.

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