Jaswant Singh penning down book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah

NEW DELHI: After senior BJP leader L K Advani created a controversy over his statement on Mohammed Ali Jinnah in 2005, another party stalwart Jaswant Singh is penning down a book on the Pakistan founder's eventful political life.
    
The book, '1947-A fractured freedom: Journey of Mohammed Ali Jinnah from an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity to Qaede-e-Aazam of Pakistan', is in the final stages and would be released in Hindi and Urdu other than English simultaneously.
    
"It is an effort to track down the history. It starts from the coming of the Muslims to India and also seeks to know the event of partition better and to understand who is responsible for it," Singh told reporters here today.
    
The book release is slated to hit the stand sometimes in July and Singh wishes to organise the release function in Pakistan.
    
The saffron party faced criticism in 2005 when Advani visited Pakistan and stated that Jinnah was a "secular" leader.
    
The statement led to a controversy within the saffron fold as the Sangh parivar came out openly against him ultimately leading to Advani's vacating the party president post.