<p>He also was sharply critical of the way in which a leader of Jaswant Singh's standing was peremptorily expelled without even a show cause notice being issued.<br /><br />"Jaswant Singh was dealt with unfairly. Though I do not agree with Jaswant Singh's assessment of Jinnah, still, I feel it was not a disciplinary matter at all," the former External Affairs Minister said.<br /><br />He said it was not right for the party to take decisions so summarily against somebody who has been in the party for 30 years and had been a founder-member of the party.<br />Emphasising that writing a book does not constitute indiscipline, he said "the party president had already distanced himself from the contents of Jaswant Singh's book. That should have been enough."<br /><br />He said the whole "expulsion process was faulty" as even a show cause notice was not issued to Jaswant Singh.<br /><br />To a question, he said "things would have been handled differently" in the party if Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been in charge.<br /><br />Sinha, who had attacked the party as not doing a proper introspection of the electoral defeat, had resigned from all the posts in July as a mark of protest. He was nominated to the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament as a member but the party did not make him its Chairman.</p>
<p>He also was sharply critical of the way in which a leader of Jaswant Singh's standing was peremptorily expelled without even a show cause notice being issued.<br /><br />"Jaswant Singh was dealt with unfairly. Though I do not agree with Jaswant Singh's assessment of Jinnah, still, I feel it was not a disciplinary matter at all," the former External Affairs Minister said.<br /><br />He said it was not right for the party to take decisions so summarily against somebody who has been in the party for 30 years and had been a founder-member of the party.<br />Emphasising that writing a book does not constitute indiscipline, he said "the party president had already distanced himself from the contents of Jaswant Singh's book. That should have been enough."<br /><br />He said the whole "expulsion process was faulty" as even a show cause notice was not issued to Jaswant Singh.<br /><br />To a question, he said "things would have been handled differently" in the party if Atal Bihari Vajpayee had been in charge.<br /><br />Sinha, who had attacked the party as not doing a proper introspection of the electoral defeat, had resigned from all the posts in July as a mark of protest. He was nominated to the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament as a member but the party did not make him its Chairman.</p>
