Lok Sabha MP and expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh said on Monday that he did not intend going back to the BJP or joining any other party. “Main us ghar wapas nahin jaoonga (I will not go back to BJP),” he said and added that the party was suffering from “narrow-mindedness and not doing inclusive politics”. While Singh refrained from calling BJP “anti-Muslim”, he emphasised that the party had developed certain shortcomings.

Singh said: “I had clear differences with the party on L K Advani’s rath yatra and BJP’s alliance with Shiv Sena. I had opposed Advani during the party’s meeting. I had also told Atalji that I would not share the dais with any Shiv Sena leader”. “Kuchh barson mein BJP ke vichar aur vyavhaar mein zaroor kami aayi hai (BJP’s actions and behaviour have surely changed in the past few years),” he said.

The veteran leader, who was here to launch the Urdu version of his book, said: “It is not that I have been talking about Muslim welfare after my expulsion from the BJP. What I wrote in my book on Jinnah is not about me going through any change of heart but about putting Partition facts in the right perspective”.

Singh, with Independent Banka MP Digvijay Singh and suspended JD-U Rajya Sabha MP Ejaz Ali who organised the launch, said, “I have attempted an alliance with Digvijay Singh and will see how it works”. He also said he would not resign as PAC chairman under BJP pressure.