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Shimla - India's main opposition political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled senior party member Jaswant Singh from the party on Wednesday for lauding Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his new book even as Singh reacted by saying he did not regret writing the book.
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The BJP top brass took the decision to expel Singh, a Lok Sabha member and a former Union Minister at the party's Chintan Baithak (brainstorming session) held in Shimla.
After the meeting concluded for the day, BJP President Rajnath Singh said to the media that the party was forced to take the extreme action of expelling the former external affairs minister from the primary membership of the party as his views on Jinnah - allegedly the chief architect of India's partition - in his new book 'Jinnah, India-Partition Independence' did not match with the party's views.
"The party fully disassociates itself from the contents of the book of Jaswant Singh," the BJP president said, adding that Singh was also told not to participate in the BJP meeting though he was present in Shimla.
In reaction, Jaswant Singh has expressed shock and sadness but categorically said he does not regret writing his personal opinion on the founder of Pakistan.
"I am sad because if the party had to take this decision, then it would have been better that if the honorary party's chief would have informed me in Delhi itself that I should not come," a visibly dejected Singh said.
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