New Delhi: Senior politician Jaswant Singh has new avenues after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled him for writing a biography of Pakistan’s founder M A Jinnah.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has invited him to join the party and he is soon to visit Pakistan to promote his book. SP leader Amar Singh on Tuesday told CNN-IBN Singh is welcome to work “through the platform of SP”.
"I have spoken with him and I have very candidly told him that he is not alone. I am too small a fry to invite him to my party but it will be my fortune to enable him to do something to be active in politics through the platform of SP," said Amar.
Amar said Singh had requested him to recuperate after his kidney transplant surgery in Singapore and they could talk then. The SP leader said he had told Singh his expulsion from the BJP was unjustified.
"I am saddened by the development in your party and I don't see any reason for the book (on Jinnah by Jaswant) being the cause for you being removed from your party".
"I will be too happy and too delighted to have someone as senior as Jaswant Singhji in stature. And also his views on partition are identical to that our ideologue Dr Ram Manohar Lohia," said Amar.
The SP leader said senior BJP leader L K Advani praised Jinnah but the party projected him as its Prime Ministerial candidate.
Jaswant will visit Islamabad on Friday and will sign copies of his book, Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence, at a leading bookstore. He will then head for Karachi for another promotional event.
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