‘I told Advaniji not to associate himself with the sting operation. He kept quiet and I couldn’t press beyond a point’

The Indian Express Tags : Jaswant Singh, BJP, Shekhar Gupta, Walk the Talk, Vajpayee Posted: Monday , Aug 24, 2009 at 0327 hrs

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Expelled from the BJP after being associated with the party for three decades, former Union minister and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh says he has been wounded by his own kith and kin. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Jaswant Singh talks about the rise of sycophancy and moral decadence in the party, the sting operation during the vote of confidence, the Kandahar hijack, and how he persuaded Vajpayee not to resign after the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Shekhar Gupta: Hello and welcome to walk the talk and without wasting any time let me turn to my guest this week, Mr Jaswant Singh.

Jaswant Singh: Hello Shekhar

Shekhar Gupta: welcome to walk the talk. How grateful I am you found time. I know you have a lot to do

Jaswant Singh: Thank you

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Shekhar Gupta: You mind if I describe you as one of our most famous victims of friendly fire

Jaswant Singh: It’s perhaps not friendly fire. I have been wounded by my own kith and kin. So friendly fire has a different connotation as a literary term. Its accidental

Shekhar Gupta: Unintended

Jaswant Singh: Unintended. This is not friendly fire. This is something like what – I am not alluding to it because it is a connotation – Winston Churchill once said, “No, no, no these are not,” pointing to the opposition benches, “these are not my enemies, look behind, they are sitting behind me”. I ve been wounded, injured, and expelled by kith and kin. Not by friendly fire

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To opponants of Jaswant SinghBy: Does'nt matter | 28-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward If Jaswant Singh is wrong prove it. what I heard from my elders is that Nehru, Patel and likeminded were afraid that if India remained one country, Muslims will be a powerful entity and will demand an equal role in governance (owing to majority of Muslims in hose parts which were separated from India).And therfore, they themselves were happy with the idea of creation of Pakistan. They compelled Jinnah to demand Pakistan.

Character of a manBy: Dev Verma | 27-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward ITS USELESS TO COMMENT ON JASWANT SINGH'S STORY, AT LEAST HE SHOULD HAVE MAINTAIN HIS CHARACTER.MR GUPTA SHOW SOME GOOD JOUIRNALISM INSTEAD WASTING TIME HERE.

Jaswant is a hypocriteBy: Babban | 26-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward Jaswant Singh is just a hypocrite. For 30 years, he was cosy in BJP enjoying ministries and other perks. Now the traitor calls the party Ku Klux Klan. Such people one day will sell their mothers also!Jaswant and leftist media loves to call his silly book a "scholarly" work. Dude, if you want to do scholarly work you should be in a University or Thinktank. Political parties are for politics.

Shekhar Gupta's interview of Jaswant SinghBy: Rajat | 26-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward Bottom line is Lal Krishan Advani should take retirement.He is too old to deliver anything meaningful to his party or to his nation.He can only dream of becoming a Prime Minister.Jaswant Singh's removal from BJP is very unfortunate event.

A minus B can never be A but it is so in IndiaBy: lakshmi narain | 26-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward The political partition of India in 1947 is the Central theme of the above matter. Instead of harping on the part played by several players----BJP was not in picture then----those interested in this epoch of Indian history should try to learn lessons there from as ---more often than not----if the forces and the psyche responsible thereof are still active---history will repeat itself. This time no partition will be claimed nor it will be necessary. India was partitioned only due to the compulsions of those who agreed to it and was left without the territory which formed Pakistan---a part of that Pakistan is now Bangladesh But India MINUS Pakistan is still India , it is like a “Common NOUN” with its translation as “Bharat” or Bharat with its translation as “India”. A Minus B can never be A but it is so in India. Much of the repetition of history----IN THE ABOVE FORM--- is already visible. According to the psyche of the present dispensation “The first charge on the resources of the country is of the Minorities ( based on religion ). This will lead to its Logical conclusion. The Minorities will have not only the first but also the last charge thereon. Like Partition in 1947 it will be accepted as other options will be as impracticable as in 1947.This can be easily explained but it requires a book of at least double the size of that of Jaswant Singh. Let BJP, Congress and all others concerned about the future of India, instead of washing the linen of the dirty past, consider this aspect. Partition of India in 1947 will naturally be the basis thereof. There shall be serious differences of opinion both about 1947 and post 1947. The faults, responsibilities or the abuses or praises of the players of 1947 will automatically come out in the study of history of India----pre-Partition, Partition and post Partition in the above light. None undertaking such a study need be faulted or punished.The Constitution of India provides for a “CITIZEN” of India. The above study can be only by a NATIONAL of India. Hence the first task is to identify as to who is a “National of India. Thus there is the Indian NATIONAL Congress and there is the RASHTRIYA (National) Swayam Sewak Sangh. Is the concept of Congress of “Nationalism “the same as the concept of “Rashtriyta” of RSS?. One who chooses to undertake this basically important task for his country will have to decide if he himself is National of this country or not. One who is independent enough to take this decision alone will be qualified to render this EVERLASTING service to his MOTHERLAND

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