Industrialist Nusli Wadia, grandson of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on Monday dismissed a suggestion that he had financed the book, Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence, by Jaswant Singh to glorify Pakistan’s founder but said he was “appalled” by the BJP leader’s expulsion from the party.
“It is all nonsense. My grandfather is my grandfather; it is not going to change. I don’t need Jaswant Singh to write a certificate for him,” he told CNN-IBN .
On the debate over the book ‘Jinnah: India, Partition-Independence’ involving some ‘very close’ friends of his, Wadia said, “In the case of Jaswant Singh, I don’t think anybody has the right to say he doesn’t have the right to write a book.”
To a question on the action taken by BJP against Singh, he said, “I am surprised, yes. I am very surprised. I am saddened and I am appalled.” Asked how he felt when he saw BJP leader L K Advani, a friend of his for the last 30 to 40 years, in the current situation, Wadia just said, “Sad, very sad.”
