Jaswant wonders at Advani’s silence for month on sacking

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Thursday came out in support of expelled Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh and questioned the party's decision. "The way Jaswant was treated was not good.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh Monday convened a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the parliament, defying the party's call to him to quit the post after his sacking. Singh Monday called a meeting of the 22-member committee, which scrutinises government spending.

September 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - Film star turned Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha has come down heavily on his party for sacking senior leader Jaswant Singh for his book praising Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and said a politician could not be prevented from having a personal ideology. Speaking out for the first time on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh, Sinha said: "I've so far kept quiet.

September 1st, 2009 The more expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh exposes embarrassing machinations and failures in his former political sanctuary, the more he also implicitly acknowledges his own acquiescence in the goings-on. For some strange reasons the media has not asked him two fundamental questions.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday said expelled party veteran Jaswant Singh should on moral grounds step down as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament. Party spokesperson Ravi Shanker Prasad told reporters here that Jaswant Singh, elected to the Lok Sabha from Darjeeling, should quit the parliamentary panel post on the grounds of "morality", while the party would take a call on what course it would take on it.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj Monday met expelled leader Jaswant Singh at his residence here but party sources said the MP's reinstatement was not discussed. The surprise meeting came amid turmoil in the BJP triggered by Jaswant Singh's expulsion over his book that says that Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah alone cannot be blamed for the 1947 partition of India.

August 24th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI - Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was writing his resignation after the 2002 Gujarat riots but was physically prevented from doing so by his ministerial colleague Jaswant Singh who held his hand, claim two senior leaders. While one of them, Jaswant Singh, who was expelled last week from the BJP for his book on Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, has gone public with the disclosure, the other preferred to remain anonymous.

August 20th, 2009 SHIMLA - A day after being expelled from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jaswant Singh left for New Delhi Thursday morning after a two-day sojourn here. "This (Thursday) morning he left for Delhi by road.

August 20th, 2009 SHIMLA - While most Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, who are here for a three-day meeting to introspect on what ails the party, Thursday maintained a studied silence on the dramatic sacking of senior leader Jaswant Singh, there is unease in sections of the party over the decision. Several partymen believe Singh should not have been expelled, recalling the way the BJP internalised its seniormost leader L.K.

August 20th, 2009 SHIMLA - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders who have gathered here for a three-day meeting to introspect on what ails the party are maintaining a studied silence on the dramatic expulsion of senior leader Jaswant Singh from the party. The 'chintan baithak', introspection session, began Wednesday with Jaswant Singh being expelled - just two days after the release of his controversial book "Jinnah - India - Partition - Independence".

August 19th, 2009 SHIMLA - Expulsion of veteran leader Jaswant Singh from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dominated the first day's discussions at the party's three-day introspection meeting here Wednesday, as top leaders analysed the factors that led to the party's dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections. The chintan baithak (introspection session) began with the party leadership deciding to sack the former foreign minister over his book praising Mohammed Ali Jinnah that was released Monday.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) -- the ideological fountainhead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- Monday said it did not agree with the views of senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on his eulogy of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. Eulogising the founder of Pakistan in his book "Jinnah -- India, Participation, Independence", Jaswant Singh has said Jinnah was "demonised" by India while it was actually India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's belief in a centralised polity that led to partition.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday ruled out taking action against veteran leader Jaswant Singh for voicing in the media criticism of the party after the poll debacle but it said the leadership does not approve of such issues being discussed publicly. "There is no proposal (for action) against Jaswant Singh (and so) there is no question of taking any action," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said.

May 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh Saturday won the parliamentary election from Darjeeling in West Bengal.

April 9th, 2009 SILIGURI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh on Thursday filed nomination from Darjeeling for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Jaswant Singh was accompanied by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) president Bimal Gurung, his wife Sheetal Kumari and his secretary Colonel Bhawani Singh.