Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress, not Muhammad Ali Jinnah was responsible for Partition: Farooq Abdullah
7 years ago

Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress, not Muhammad Ali Jinnah was responsible for Partition: Farooq Abdullah

Firstpost  

National Conference chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah blamed Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad for the Partition of India and not Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan In a statement which may once again open the contentious debate over the Partition of India, National Conference chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Saturday claimed that it was Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad who were responsible for the Partition of India and not Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Minorities, Sikh ke liye special dispensation rakhenge, magar mulq ko divide nahi karenge: Farooq Abdullah pic.twitter.com/5sM0OZLvxI — ANI March 3, 2018 Abdullah added that Jinnah did not want Pakistan in the first place. Aaj na Bangladesh hota, na Pakistan hota, ek Bharat hota: Farooq Abdullah in Jammu pic.twitter.com/aIURqKUk6I — ANI March 3, 2018 Abdullah decries use of religion in politics Abdullah also expressed grave concern over the “communalisation of politics” ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, and cautioned BJP to desist from “dividing the nation on religious lines”. The partition debate took a political turn in 2009, when Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Jaswant Singh wrote in his book, “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” that it was Nehru’s centralised policy which forced Jinnah to seek a separate homeland for Indian Muslims.

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Aakar Patel | If Constitution had weak Centre, could Partition of India have been averted?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Aakar Patel | If Constitution had weak Centre, could Partition of India have been averted?

Deccan Chronicle  

A counterfactual is thinking about something that might have happened but did not happen. As Congress president in 1946, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad had concluded that undivided India’s Constitution “must from the nature of the case” be federal. The Cabinet Mission plan the British released a month later, on May 16, does not differ much from Azad’s except in one …

Partition a historical mistake: Owaisi
1 year, 5 months ago

Partition a historical mistake: Owaisi

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday called the Partition of India “a historical mistake that should not have happened.” Owaisi was responding to a question from a reporter during a press conference on comments made by Samajwadi Party leader S.P. On local political issues, he accused the Congress of keeping “a door open” to join hands with the BJP …

India's partition was a 'historical mistake', says AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
1 year, 5 months ago

India's partition was a 'historical mistake', says AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi

India TV News  

Describing the partition of India a “historical mistake”, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said that the country should never have been divided. Owaisi recalls Maulana Abul Kalam Azad The AIMIM chief suggested reading a book by freedom fighter and the country’s first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s book ‘India wins Freedom’, and talked about how he pleaded to …

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha
1 year, 7 months ago

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha

Hindustan Times  

AGARTALA: India was partitioned in 1947 due to the wishes of only “two persons” though many Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and people from all other religions were against it, Tripura chief minister Manik Saha said at a programme to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in Agartala on Monday. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha “If we think that only Hindus didn’t want …

Rahul Gandhi wants to ambush PM Modi’s US visit, but setting insidious narratives from abroad won’t serve his purpose
1 year, 9 months ago

Rahul Gandhi wants to ambush PM Modi’s US visit, but setting insidious narratives from abroad won’t serve his purpose

Firstpost  

Rahul Gandhi has once again gone abroad to indulge in his favourite exercise. Rahul’s engagements are therefore marked by vitriolic outbursts against Modi and withering denigration of India under Modi, and in his penchant for criticizing the prime minister — whom he tries to portray as an authoritarian pantomime — the Congress leader frequently ends up casting aspersions on India’s …

Rahul Gandhi says Muslim League a 'secular party', BJP retorts 'it's his compulsion to remain acceptable in Wayanad'
1 year, 9 months ago

Rahul Gandhi says Muslim League a 'secular party', BJP retorts 'it's his compulsion to remain acceptable in Wayanad'

Firstpost  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that Muslim League is a completely secular party and there is nothing non-secular about the outfit, drawing a sharp condemnation from the BJP Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that Muslim League is a completely secular party and there is nothing non-secular about the outfit, drawing a sharp condemnation from the BJP. …

‘Muslim League secular’: Rahul Gandhi; 'Compulsion to stay acceptable in Wayanad': BJP
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Muslim League secular’: Rahul Gandhi; 'Compulsion to stay acceptable in Wayanad': BJP

Hindustan Times  

On a question on the Congress' alliance with the Muslim League in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi during his interaction at the National Press Club in Washington DC said there was nothing non-secular about Muslim League. While Rahul Gandhi's statements in the US already stirred a storm, the Muslim League one drew condemnation from the BJP. BJP's Amit Malviya said it is …

'Nehru Responsible for Partition, Rejecting UCC': Rambahadur Rai's Book To Be Unveiled by PM Today
2 years, 9 months ago

'Nehru Responsible for Partition, Rejecting UCC': Rambahadur Rai's Book To Be Unveiled by PM Today

News 18  

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, has been held responsible for Partition and the creation of Pakistan, bringing amendments to the Constitution and blocking the formulation of a Uniform Civil Code in a book titled Bharatiya Samvidhan: Ankahi Kahani. “In his letter to the then West Bengal Chief Minister Vidhan Chandra Roy, Nehru confessed many things including if …

June 15, 1947: When Congress accepted Mountbatten plan that divided India on religious lines
2 years, 9 months ago

June 15, 1947: When Congress accepted Mountbatten plan that divided India on religious lines

Op India  

The partition of India is one of the greatest horrors inflicted on India that haunts every Indian even today. 75 years ago today the ‘nationalist’ Congress party along with MK Gandhi approved the plan of dividing the Bharat into two sovereign entities- India and Pakistan, to maintain its basic ‘secular nationalist’ character. He said, “Friends, in India, there live two …

Jinnah partitioned India once but BJP leaders are dividing country every day: Sanjay Raut
3 years ago

Jinnah partitioned India once but BJP leaders are dividing country every day: Sanjay Raut

India TV News  

Highlights Jinnah had partitioned India only once, but BJP creating a rift between Hindus and Muslims: Raut Sanjay Raut also slammed BJP for terming the Uddhav Thackeray-led party "Janab Sena". Raut said RSS has formed many organisations for Muslims such as Rashtriya Muslim Manch Muhammad Ali Jinnah had partitioned India only once to create Pakistan but BJP leaders are dividing …

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition
3 years, 1 month ago

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition

The Hindu  

P artition, or rather the vivisection of India, as Mahatma Gandhi termed it, is a theme of enduring interest, both to the rapidly diminishing generation that suffered and survived it and to the succeeding generations in the subcontinent. As for the Lahore Resolution, adopted in March 1940 by the Muslim League without mentioning the word “Pakistan”, the author correctly points …

Partition of India a 'historic mistake': Farooq Abdullah
3 years, 3 months ago

Partition of India a 'historic mistake': Farooq Abdullah

India TV News  

Highlights Farooq Abdullah on Monday said that India's partition was a historic mistake. India's partition was a historic mistake, and not only Kashmiris but the entire Muslim community had to bear its brunt, National Conference national president Farooq Abdullah said on Monday. Supporting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's statement on the country's partition, Abdullah said had there been no partition, the …

74 Years after Partition, How Jinnah’s Opening Gambit Has Succeeded in Kashmir
3 years, 3 months ago

74 Years after Partition, How Jinnah’s Opening Gambit Has Succeeded in Kashmir

News 18  

When Partition talks were on, Jinnah’s opening position was simple. But 74 years after Partition, it seems Jinnah’s opening gambit has largely succeeded, thanks to India’s ‘intellectual elite’. Curiously, it was the same Sheikh Abdullah who opposed Jinnah’s ‘Muslim majority states must automatically become part of Pakistan’ formula and then invariably gravitated towards the formula due to politics. Some scholars …

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive
3 years, 3 months ago

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive

The Quint  

Bhagwat contended that Indian leaders at the time of Partition did not have the vision, courage or conviction to prevent it. The RSS has long argued that partition could have been averted because MA Jinnah died within a few months and it was hastiness on part of Nehru to acquire power that led to a truncated territory being India. In …

How LK Advani and Jaswant Singh saw Jinnah
3 years, 4 months ago

How LK Advani and Jaswant Singh saw Jinnah

Hindustan Times  

Last Saturday, at a rally in Azamgarh, home minister Amit Shah asked the gathering: “Does anyone feel Jinnah is great?” Then, without a pause, he answered his own question: “No one”. In June 2005, in comments in the visitor’s book at Jinnah’s mausoleum, he wrote: “My respectful homage to this great man.” Recalling Sarojini Naidu’s description of Jinnah as an …

Partition did not happen due to Muslims but due to Jinnah: Owaisi
3 years, 4 months ago

Partition did not happen due to Muslims but due to Jinnah: Owaisi

India TV News  

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the Congress party should be blamed for the partition of India in 1947. Owaisi's comments came amid a controversy over Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief OP Rajbhar's statement that had Mohammed Ali Jinnah been made the first Prime Minister of India, there would not have been partition. "The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is responsible …

Akhilesh's ally Om Prakash Rajbhar blames RSS for partition
3 years, 4 months ago

Akhilesh's ally Om Prakash Rajbhar blames RSS for partition

India TV News  

A day after saying that there would have been no partition if Muhammad Ali Jinnah was made the first prime minister of the country, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar blamed the RSS on Thursday for the historic event. Reiterating his stand, Rajbhar said if Jinnah was made the first prime minister of independent India, there would have …

'If Jinnah was made PM...': OP Rajbhar's remarks stir controversy
3 years, 4 months ago

'If Jinnah was made PM...': OP Rajbhar's remarks stir controversy

Deccan Chronicle  

Ballia: A day after saying that there would have been no partition if Muhammad Ali Jinnah was made the first prime minister of the country, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar blamed the RSS on Thursday for the historic event. The SBSP chief said leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Govind Ballabh Pant had praised Jinnah, …

'India Would Not Have Seen Partition Had Jinnah Been Made First PM', SBSP Chief Rajbhar Says
3 years, 4 months ago

'India Would Not Have Seen Partition Had Jinnah Been Made First PM', SBSP Chief Rajbhar Says

News 18  

Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made the first prime minister, adding to the row on a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav. Rajbhar made the assertion, in the wake of his poll ally Yadav talking of Jinnah in the same breath as …

India wouldn't have seen Partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made first PM: SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar
3 years, 4 months ago

India wouldn't have seen Partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made first PM: SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar

India Today  

Adding to the row on a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no Partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made the first prime minister. "Had Jinnah been made the first prime minister, the partition of the country would not have …

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena
3 years, 7 months ago

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena

Hindustan Times  

In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to observe August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, the Shiv Sena has questioned what did the people, who are now vouching for undivided India, do when the country was on the verge of the partition. Sanjay Raut said it was Lokmanya Tilak who had accepted the demand for Separate Electorates …

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena
3 years, 7 months ago

Had Godse killed Jinnah instead of Gandhi, partition would’ve been averted: Shiv Sena

Hindustan Times  

In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to observe August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, the Shiv Sena has questioned what did the people, who are now vouching for undivided India, do when the country was on the verge of the partition. Sanjay Raut Shiv Sena parliamentarian Sanjay Raut, in his weekly column Rokthok in party mouthpiece …

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition
3 years, 7 months ago

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition

Op India  

On the day PM Modi declared August 14 to be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ to acknowledge the pain undergone by Indians due to the partition of India in 1947, an unseen picture of Congress delegates voting in favour of partition has gone viral on the internet. The picture of Congress members, which also included India’s first Prime Minister …

Book Review: Ishtiaq Ahmed's "Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History" attempts to understand Partition
3 years, 9 months ago

Book Review: Ishtiaq Ahmed's "Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History" attempts to understand Partition

The Hindu  

Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been praised and dispraised for the partition of India. In his book The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx says: “Men make their history, but they do not make it just as they please, they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.” Core …

Aakar Patel incites Indian Muslims to demand separate electorates
4 years, 7 months ago

Aakar Patel incites Indian Muslims to demand separate electorates

Op India  

Former head of Amnesty India, which claims to be a humanitarian organisation, Aakar Patel, has decided it is time for him channel the spirit of Mohammed Ali Jinnah and make an elaborate defence for the creation of Pakistan. During an elaborate meltdown on micro-blogging site Twitter, Aakar Patel said it was time for Muslims in India to demand proportional representation …

'Muslims chose to stay in India after partition' is a myth used to make Hindus feel guilty
4 years, 7 months ago

'Muslims chose to stay in India after partition' is a myth used to make Hindus feel guilty

Op India  

Hindus celebrated across the world as the 500-year-old battle to reclaim the Ram Janmabhoomi culminated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing the ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ for the Bhavya Ram Mandir. One of the foremost arguments used by the apologetics of Islamism when any criticism of the barbarity heaped by invaders is mounted is that any such criticism is misplaced since the …

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united
5 years, 1 month ago

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united

The Hindu  

It has become a fashion these days to blame the Congress for Partition. Cabinet Mission Plan Moreover, documentary evidence, especially the resolution of the Muslim League Council in June 1946 that accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan, proves that the Muslim League’s acceptance was premised on the belief that the Plan was a stepping stone towards the ultimate formation of Pakistan, …

PM Modi reminds Congress of Nehru's role in India's partition
5 years, 1 month ago

PM Modi reminds Congress of Nehru's role in India's partition

Op India  

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress for spreading misinformation on Citizenship Amendment Act and made references to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in the partition of the country. In a veiled reference to Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “For someone’s aspiration to become the Prime Minister of …

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition
5 years, 2 months ago

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

Deccan Chronicle  

The current time in India has brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. 11) Provision should be made in the Constitution giving Muslims an adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency. 12) The Constitution should …

Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said
5 years, 3 months ago

Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said

Op India  

Launching a blistering attack on the Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the party failed to act on the issue of persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries. Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi Targetting the Congress party for the partition of the country, PM Modi said that the …

PM Modi, Stop Worrying About Wayanad & Learn From Chicago Instead
5 years, 11 months ago

PM Modi, Stop Worrying About Wayanad & Learn From Chicago Instead

The Quint  

The Unbridgeable Chasm of “Separate Electorates” A couple of decades later, “separate electorates” became the unbridgeable chasm between Gandhi and Jinnah that led to the creation of Pakistan. Jinnah’s famous “Fourteen Points of 1929” included the following: *In the Central Legislature, Mussulman representation shall not be less than one third. *That, in the present circumstances, representation of Mussulman in the …

Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago
5 years, 11 months ago

Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago

The Quint  

A couple of decades later, “separate electorates” became the unbridgeable chasm between Gandhi and Jinnah that led to the creation of Pakistan. That, in the present circumstances, representation of Mussulman in the different Legislatures of the country and other elected bodies through separate electorates is inevitable and further, the Government being pledged over and over again not to disturb this …

Controversial former VP Ansari says Sardar Patel was as guilty as Jinnah in the conspiracy to partition India
6 years, 4 months ago

Controversial former VP Ansari says Sardar Patel was as guilty as Jinnah in the conspiracy to partition India

Op India  

Controversial former Vice-President Hamid Ansari, while releasing the Urdu and Hindi translations of journalist Saeed Naqvi’s book “Being the Other: The Muslim in India”, at the Dy. Brandishing his Muslim bias, Hamid Ansari speaking at the event said, that Sardar Patel is ‘Just as guilty as Pakistan’s Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the conspiracy to partition India’. Referring to Sardar …

Partition wouldn't have happened if Jinnah had become PM: Dalai Lama
6 years, 7 months ago

Partition wouldn't have happened if Jinnah had become PM: Dalai Lama

Deccan Chronicle  

Panaji: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said Jawaharlal Nehru had a “self-centred attitude” to become India’s first prime minister even though Mahatma Gandhi was in favour of Muhammad Ali Jinnah taking the top post at that time. Responding to a student’s question on taking right decisions, he said, “I feel democratic systems are very good than the feudal …

Farooq Abdullah absolves Jinnah, blames Nehru, Patel, Azad for 'division' of India
7 years ago

Farooq Abdullah absolves Jinnah, blames Nehru, Patel, Azad for 'division' of India

Deccan Chronicle  

Jammu: Kicking off a fresh controversy, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday blamed the country’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana Azad and Sardar Patel for “division” of united India. The comments drew strong reaction from Union minister Jitender Singh, who asked the NC chief to “re-read the history of the sub-continent”, whereas state unit of BJP accused …

Jinnah didn’t want to create Pakistan, says Farooq Abdullah, stirs up controversy
7 years ago

Jinnah didn’t want to create Pakistan, says Farooq Abdullah, stirs up controversy

Op India  

Nehru, Sardar Patel and Maulana Azad are responsible for the partition of India and not Jinnah ‘Sahab’, said Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Jinnah ne maana magar Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad aur Sardar Patel ne nahi maana. Aaj na Bangladesh hota, na Pakistan hota, ek Bharat hota: Farooq Abdullah in Jammu pic.twitter.com/aIURqKUk6I — ANI March 3, …

‘Partition: 1947’ Parts With the Human Plight of Independence
7 years, 7 months ago

‘Partition: 1947’ Parts With the Human Plight of Independence

The Quint  

Lord Mountbatten was brought in to oversee the change of power, which was going to be a messy and tragic affair. The film, dubbed in Hindi and re-christened Partition: 1947, closely follows the workings of the last Viceroy to India and the events leading up to 15 August 1947. Incidentally, the English title, The Viceroy’s House, is more apt for …

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today
7 years, 7 months ago

How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Partition” – the division of …

India at 70: Horror of Partition sealed Nehru’s drive for a secular democracy after Independence
7 years, 7 months ago

India at 70: Horror of Partition sealed Nehru’s drive for a secular democracy after Independence

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Spectacles: Jawaharal Nehru and Gandhi …

India and Pakistan's 70 years of Independence: A look back at how destiny set the midnight’s children apart
7 years, 7 months ago

India and Pakistan's 70 years of Independence: A look back at how destiny set the midnight’s children apart

Firstpost  

Nehru and Jinnah would not have had the slightest of idea on how the destinies of India and Pakistan would pan out in the next seven decades. While Nehru’s “Tryst with Destiny” speech set the tone for India’s future role as a responsible voice of the third world, Jinnah’s “secular State” speech sought to position Pakistan as a country where …

Syama Prasad Mookerjee – The maker of modern India whom we shouldn’t forget
7 years, 8 months ago

Syama Prasad Mookerjee – The maker of modern India whom we shouldn’t forget

Op India  

“We must live and die for India and her liberty. Wealth, arms, munitions, disciplined armies and navies and air forces are of splendid service but the character of the people, the character in to which the youth is growing, determines the life or death of the nation.” Rarely India saw such a leader of Mookerjee’s stature who had left imprints …

Partition: A fallout of 1942?
9 years, 7 months ago

Partition: A fallout of 1942?

Deccan Chronicle  

There has been a spate of books in recent weeks on Partition and the birth of Pakistan. Did Nehru and Patel, and perhaps Mahatma Gandhi too, give in because they were too tired after a long struggle for freedom and saw a smaller but more organically united India as more workable than the sum of many parts held together by …

Pakistan: A once dangerous idea
10 years ago

Pakistan: A once dangerous idea

Live Mint  

Buried in the archives of the British Library in London, historian Venkat Dhulipala discovered an amazing document that dates to 13 March, 1955. If one can single out one reason for Pakistan’s failure then it is Jinnah’s inability to see that religion and region could never be squared even if Islam is probably a wonderfully homogenous faith. In comparison to …

Parivar & Partition
10 years, 7 months ago

Parivar & Partition

The Hindu  

“THE ease with which a larger number of Congressmen and women—small, big and bigger still—have walked into the RSS-BJP boat and sailed with it is not a matter of surprise. “On 11-16 December 1938, the CWC declared the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League as communal organisations and debarred elected members of Congress committees from serving on similar committees in …

The quest for peace in South Asia
11 years, 5 months ago

The quest for peace in South Asia

Live Mint  

As a Pakistani I would have liked to see Asia Society’s recent gathering of young Indian and Pakistani leaders in Islamabad meet under happier circumstances. But for all the history of animosity and violence between our nations, this small gathering proved that our children might be able to meet in those better circumstances if we realize how much our two …

Let us debate the idea of India
12 years, 2 months ago

Let us debate the idea of India

Live Mint  

Speaking to The New York Times on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s prospects for leadership at a national level, Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University opined, “Modi’s politics is against the idea of India… The idea of India has a clear place for minorities as minorities, not minorities simply as individuals.” His comment succinctly captures the view of most so-called secular …

Arun Jaitley justifies Jaswant’s expulsion
15 years, 7 months ago

Arun Jaitley justifies Jaswant’s expulsion

The Hindu  

The expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Jaswant Singh, on Thursday lashed out at his former party for its so-called “core belief,” questioning its fondness for India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel; he reminded the BJP that it was Patel who banned the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh soon after Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. Even as the Leader of the Opposition in the …

Gujarat bans Jaswant’s book on Jinnah
15 years, 7 months ago

Gujarat bans Jaswant’s book on Jinnah

The Hindu  

The Gujarat government on Wednesday banned expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial book on Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah which allegedly defamed the image of Vallabhbhai Patel, officials in the Chief Minister’s Office said. The BJP had on Tuesday completely disassociated from Mr. Singh’s book “Jinnah — India, Partition, Independence“. Mr. Singh had praised Jinnah and charged the first Prime …

BJP expels Jaswant Singh over Jinnah book
15 years, 7 months ago

BJP expels Jaswant Singh over Jinnah book

Live Mint  

Shimla: Jaswant Singh, whose book eulogising Mohd Ali Jinnah has come under attack from Bharatiya Janata Party and the Sangh Parivar, was on Wednesday expelled from the party. BJP president Rajnath Singh, who had on Tuesday issued a statement totally distancing the party from Jaswant Singh’s book Jinnah - India, Partition, Independence, announced the decision to the media here. Jaswant …

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