BJP’s ideology has become narrow: Jaswant

Ruling out the possibility of returning to BJP,expelled leader Jaswant Singh said if the party wanted to rise and stand big,it would have to change its attitude.

Ruling out the possibility of returning to BJP or joining any other party,expelled leader Jaswant Singh on Monday said the ideology of the saffron outfit has “become narrow”.

“There is no point in returning to the party which expelled me…BJP’s ideology has become narrow… if the party wants to rise and stand big,it will have to change its attitude,” Singh told reporters here.

“I do not not harbour any ambition or plan to join any other political party,” Singh,who was here to release the Urdu translation of his book ‘Jinnah,Partition and Independence’,said.

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Justifying his comments on Jinnah,Singh said he would not change his stand and would keep on trying to bridge the gap between Hindus and Muslims.

On the reported pressure on him to step down as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Lok Sabha,he said,”The post I occupy has not not been bestowed upon me as dowry by BJP… a member of the house is eligible to keep the post.”

Jaswant also ruled out seeking elections afresh from Darjeeling from where he was elected to the Lok Sabha on a BJP ticket in May last,just three months before his expulsion from the party.

However,he said he did not plan to quit electoral politics and he was serving Darjeeling.

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