New Delhi: Industrialist Nusli Wadia,
grandson of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, today dismissed a suggestion
that he had financed the book 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 a private news channel.
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."
Bureau Report
