Nine months after dismissal, Jaswant Singh to be back in BJP

Veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh has reportedly been asked to re-join the party, nine months after he was dismissed for writing a book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

Reports indicate that the top brass of the party have decided to declare his dismissal in August 2009 void. Singh was unceremoniously expelled after the party’s chintan baithak in Shimla which was held after the BJP’s debacle in Lok Sabha elections in May.

Last week, the BJP president Nitin Gadkari met Singh at his residence in Delhi. However, sources close to him had said there was still some ground to be covered before Singh was taken back.

BJP president will officially announce the decision of the party shortly in the parliamentary committee of the party.

This decision comes at a time when the Rajasthan unit of the party is in turmoil with many of its MLAs expressing displeasure over the party’s choice of candidates for Rajya Sabha polls. The party has reportedly kept all its MLAs ini a resort in Jaipur to avoid rebellion. The same has been denied by it though.

Singh had earned the ire of top BJP leadership by writing the book on Jinnah in which he praised the Pakistan founder as a patriot.

He also criticised the party for taking action againsr him without reading his book. He also panned the election strategy of BJP and had said a lot was wrong with the party.

A few weeks earlier, though, he had said that BJP was in his blood.

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