Bhopal: Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday waded into the controversy over M A Jinnah by comparing the Pakistan founder to one of the Hindu trinity of pantheons--Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
In an apparent reference to expelled BJP leader Jaswant
Singh`s praise of Jinnah and the support he got from some
party leaders, Ramesh said BJP "does not have much love for
Jinnah but it hates Jawaharlal Nehru and the hatred for Nehru
has transformed into love Jinnah".
He said Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah were
the "Brahma (creator), Vishnu (provider) and Shiva (destroyer)
of undivided India".
"Who were the Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva of unidivided
India? Brahma was Mahatma Gandhi, Vishnu was Jawaharlal Nehru
and Shiva was Jinnah", Ramesh told reporters here.
Bureau Report
