Jaswant moves SC challenging Modi govt on book ban

The petition said that the Gujarat government notification banning his book had no mention of the content which called for action and added that the ban was imposed without anyone reading the book.

While imposing the ban,hours after Singh was expelled from the party,the state government had alleged that it had defamed the image of the country’s first Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel by “questioning his patriotic spirit”.

However,Singh maintained that the step amounted to “banning thinking” and likened it to the one taken against noted author Salman Rushdie for his controversial work ‘Satanic Verses’.