Who cares about Jinnah???

The entire last week and before that the hapless Indian television audience have been witness to the media circus over the Jaswant Singh & the BJP face-off. And guess what was the melee all about? Jaswant Singh, a has been in the country's politics scene (like his party now) , who committed the cardinal sin of eulogising Mohd Ali Jinnah, the founding father of our friendly neighbour. It started with the BJP's parliamentary board expelling JS for authoring a book which had the gall to praise or patronise Jinnah, the root cause of evil as per many of the inhabitants of this country.
Now not much is know of JS except that he is from Rajput and an ex Indian army Major. He has served as a Finance minister, Defence Minister as well as a External Affairs minister during the Kandahar incident. Now, in his latest book, Jinnah:India-Partition-Independence,he has claimed Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru's centralised polity was responsible for the partition while giving a clean chit to Jinnah. He has courted such controversies earlier in 2006 also when he had authored another book titled A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India. Now, Mr. Advani, the so called shadow prime minister of the BJP who fell flat in the recent parliamentary elections, had praised MAJ when he was in Pakistan. So, I don't understand what the nosie is all about?
The bottom line is that BJP which used to claim that it is a party with a difference,is just waiting to fully implode. The self destruction process has already begun with the entire drama being played out on national media. So I would say that let JS be & let MAJ RIP, because frankly speaking we don't care a @#$%. I believe there are much more serious issues to be sorted out in this country for us to waste our time in these shenanigans.

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