<p>Delivering a speech during the release of the Urdu version of his controversial book Jinnah: India –Partition, Independence here on Sunday, he said the Partition had not only divided the country but also created a chasm within the people. “Muslims in India were made second class citizens,” he argued in the presence of former Union Ministers Arif Mohammad Khan, Digvijay Singh and noted journalists M J Akbar and Prabhash Joshi. <br /><br />Jaswant was in Patna on Sunday at the invitation of another expelled MP Dr Ezaz Ali, who was ousted from the Janata Dal (United) on October 21 for launching a diatribe against the party high command. <br /><br />Rajya Sabha member Ali gave a clarion call to launch a movement, much akin to Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran movement against Britishers in 1919, so that the three nations— India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — could be unified again.<br /><br />Noted journalist M J Akbar, hailed Jaswant Singh for writing a book which exonerated the Muslims, who were so long held responsible for India’s Partition.<br /><br />Former Union minister of state for external affairs Digvijay Singh said “Jaswantji has the guts to call a spade a spade.”</p>
<p>Delivering a speech during the release of the Urdu version of his controversial book Jinnah: India –Partition, Independence here on Sunday, he said the Partition had not only divided the country but also created a chasm within the people. “Muslims in India were made second class citizens,” he argued in the presence of former Union Ministers Arif Mohammad Khan, Digvijay Singh and noted journalists M J Akbar and Prabhash Joshi. <br /><br />Jaswant was in Patna on Sunday at the invitation of another expelled MP Dr Ezaz Ali, who was ousted from the Janata Dal (United) on October 21 for launching a diatribe against the party high command. <br /><br />Rajya Sabha member Ali gave a clarion call to launch a movement, much akin to Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran movement against Britishers in 1919, so that the three nations— India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — could be unified again.<br /><br />Noted journalist M J Akbar, hailed Jaswant Singh for writing a book which exonerated the Muslims, who were so long held responsible for India’s Partition.<br /><br />Former Union minister of state for external affairs Digvijay Singh said “Jaswantji has the guts to call a spade a spade.”</p>
