Jaswant’s book on Jinnah stays on top

September 18th, 2009 LAHORE - Three people have been arrested for selling pirated editions of former Indian minister Jaswant Singh's book "Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence" in this Pakistani city, authorities said. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided two shops in Defence Housing Authority and arrested three people for selling the pirated editions of Jaswant Singh's book, Daily Times reported Friday.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence" by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh retained the No.1 position among bestselling books in the non-fiction section this week. J.M. Coetzee's "Summertime" topped the fiction category.

September 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Indian government has allowed expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh to visit Pakistan Sep 26 to promote his book Jinnah: India, Partition and Independence, a media report said. He will arrive in Karachi Sep 26, before heading to the Pakistani capital Sep 27 to attend a launching ceremony of the book at the Islamabad Press Club.

August 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sharad Yadav leader of Janata Dal (United), an ally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said that he disapproved of the ban imposed on the book written by former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, 'Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence'. "In a democracy, there should not be a ban on any kind of writing, speech and expression.

August 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh Sunday said he never knew the party was so "narrow minded" to unceremoniously sack him for writing a book. He said the contention in his controversial book, "Jinnah -- India, Partition, Independence", that the founder of Pakistan was a "great man" and had been "demonised" in India was based on facts, and wondered that it should upset his party leadership.

August 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jaswant Singh's book that got him expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now creating fissures in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with many key allies opposing the idea of banning the book. BJP-ruled Gujarat has already banned the book "Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence", which says that Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been demonised in India and holds country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and home minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel also responsible for the partition.

August 21st, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Congress party in Gujarat Friday said it plans a campaign against expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh and his views on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's alleged role in India's partition in his controversial book "Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence". The Gujarat Congress plans a series of awareness campaigns against the former external affairs minister for what it called doubting the patriotism of Patel, a great freedom movement leader, a Gujarat Congress statement said here Friday.

August 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former union minister Jaswant Singh Thursday said he had stood with L.K. Advani, who nearly resigned as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president in the wake of internal criticism for praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah during his visit to Pakistan in 2005.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh's expulsion from the party Wednesday is an "overreaction", according to some in the BJP, and a signal against indiscipline, according to others. The ally Shiv Sena has, however, demanded the party should treat L.K.

August 19th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government late Wednesday decided to ban expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on partition for his criticism of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. "Making any references to his (Patel's) role during those critical times without any evidence is an insult to the people of Gujarat, which we will not take lying down," state government spokesman and Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas told the NDTV news channel.

August 19th, 2009 New Delhi, Aug.19 (ANI): Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)on Wednesday welcomed the expulsion of senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh for eulogising Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his book, saying it would send the right signals to the BJP's legislators and functionaries. "We take this judgement as a positive sign.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Activists of the Rashtrawadi Sena Party on Wednesday staged demonstration against former senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jaswant Singh showering encomium on founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in his book. Led by its head and founder, Jai Bhagwan Goyal, the activists held demonstration amidst sloganeering here.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday disassociated itself from senior party leader Jaswant Singh's praise for Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, saying it "does not represent the views of the party". A day after Jaswant Singh's book Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence was launched at a function in the capital, BJP president Rajnath Singh said the views expressed by the former external affairs minister were not that of the party.

August 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Pakistan's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah was consigned to flames by Uttar Pradesh Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pramod Tiwari here Tuesday afternoon. A large number of Congressmen cheered him as he made a bonfire of the book, "Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence", which has already sparked off a debate in the corridors of power in New Delhi.

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.