Now, Sudarshan praises Jinnah

It’s now the turn of former RSS boss KS Sudarshan to join league with LK Advani and Jaswant Singh.

Sudarshan, who has now settled in Bhopal, obliquely praised Jinnah during his visit to Indore on Monday where he is reported to have said, “Jinnah was a nationalist and had a multi-dimensional personality.’’

Interestingly, it was Sudarshan who, as RSS sarsanghchalak, had vociferously hit out at Advani after his controversial Pakistan visit and his remarks about Jinnah in 2005.

The BJP-RSS divide had widened and Sudarshan was in no mood to let Advani off the hook. Times have clearly changed. Instead of criticising Jinnah, the RSS ideologue was soft on Pakistan’s founder.

Today, Sudarshan, after demitting the high office of RSS chief, finds Jinnah a slightly different person. “Jinnah was with Lokmanya Tilak; he left the Congress party and did not go with Mahatma Gandhi who had launched the Khilafat movement against the British,” Sudarshan said in Indore.

He also attacked Nehru, saying the former prime minister was fond of “gau-mans” (cow meat) and despite Gandhi’s wishes, Nehru did not ban cow slaughter in India.

Sudarshan said that it’s not right to say that Muslims alone kill cows, so revered by the Hindus. “Akbar, Humayun and Shah Jahan had banned cow slaughter but during the British rule cow slaughter grew in India,” he said.