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BJP Leader
Jaswant Singh: His statement about Mohd Ali Jinnah created
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'Jinnah not responsible for Partition'
He was
demonized by India, says Jaswant Singh, admits
Indian Muslims are
treated as aliens:
In what is certain to stir up a hornets' nest, senior BJP leader Jaswant
Singh says in his biography on the founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali
Jinnah was not the villain of partition or the man principally
responsible .....
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The Congress win
and BJP led NDA’s humiliating defeat in the last Lok Sabha
elections, has created such a turmoil in the party ranks, that all
the chintan baithaks around the country, is yet to give any
semblance of internal order in Hindutva’s leadership ranks. The
diehard ideological bosses at RSS are loath to show any compromise
or weakness in diluting its exclusion of Muslim plank, for any
electoral breakthrough. Those BJP leaders voicing their opinion in
public to garner support for their opposition to inbuilt flaws that
ensures BJP failures to concoct a majority that rule the country,
are visibly sidelined.
Now Jaswant Singh,
the newly elected BJP MP from Assam, has thrown his hat in the ring,
by coming out, once again, with public secularization of Pakistan’s
founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, so that a broader section of the
voters, mainly gullible Muslims may be worked on, to ensure renewal
of electoral fortunes for the BJP with that crucial Muslim marginal
voting that incidentally catapulted Congress to the second term at
the helm of affairs at the Center.
Global strategic developments are forcing India’s hand over its
relations with Pakistan. Jaswant Singh’s initiative on Jinnah is
shrewdly timed to court Muslim both here as well as in Pakistan.
However, it is difficult for Muslim both here as well as abroad, to
treat BJP/RSS combine as something other than the destroyer of Babri
Masjid. The wound on Muslim psyche here as well as in the
neighbourhood, is so deep, that any mention of BJP, RSS, and
Hindutva instantly opens raw wounds. The Muslim hurt and Hindutva’s
narrow fascist agenda for their Idea of India, is no longer only a
private local affair, but has been on the agenda of various global
strategists as to how, this weakness of India should be exploited.
The Chinese Think Tank analyst that last week laid out China’s
options in balkanization of India, into 20, 30 states, has gleefully
welcomed Hindutva’s Idea of India, as contracting India to a very
small territory and leaving the rest for others to seek freedom from
the Brahminical stranglehold.
Under such
circumstance, Jaswant Singh’s attempt to secularize Jinnah and sell
him to Indians, both Hindus and Muslims, as the prodigal son fit to
be welcomed back in to the fold, will be an exercise ending in
futility, as the old divide had taken different dimensions and more
powerful interlocutors have already staked their claims.
Another dimension
that Jaswant may or may not have tackled in his book, is how
Churchill, Lord Wavell and Jinnah operated a secret line of
communication after Wavell apparently agreed to Churchill’s
suggestion that some part of the subcontinent has to be kept for the
West, to counter Russian advances towards its south and to ensure
safety and security of Gulf oil badly required for European
reconstruction, after the Second World War. The turn of fortune for
Jinnah has not come about like some magic. It was at the initiative
of the British and USA, working in tandem that sealed the future of
India as a divided nation. Jinnah’s role was merely as facilitator
for the British game plan, in the Great Game. It is ironical that
Jaswant Singh, himself released the book: The Untold Story of
India’s partition researched, written and published by Narendra
Singh Sarila, one of Jaswant Singh’s own clan. All the material
exposing the roles of the major part players was available to
Jaswant Singh. Still that he has chosen to court the ghost of Jinnah
amply exposes his and Sangh Parivar’s utter desperation.
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