Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said there would have been no partition if Mohammad Ali Jinnah had been made the first prime minister, adding to the controversy over a remark by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav. Rajbhar triggered criticism from BJP leaders, including UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, as freedom fighters, in the wake of his electoral ally Yadav talking of Jinnah in the same breath as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
“If Jinnah had been the first prime minister, the country would not have been divided,” Rajbhar told reporters in Varanasi. On the criticism of BJP leaders for Yadav’s remarks on Jinnah, Rajbhar said, read Advani ji’s thoughts, read Atal ji’s thoughts, read the views of other well-wishers of the country on the possibility of Jinnah becoming the PM. Why did he praise him?” Rajbhar was apparently referring to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani’s alleged statements on Jinnah in the past.
Yadav’s comments while praising Patel on his 146th birth anniversary on October 31, comparing Pakistan’s fond Jinnah with Gandhi and Nehru, had raised many eyebrows.
Addressing a public meeting in Hardoi, the SP leader had said, “Sardar Patel understood the land and he took decisions accordingly. That’s why he is also known as Iron Man. “Sardar Patel, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah studied in the same institute and became barristers. He helped (India) get freedom and never backed down from any struggle.
Yadav had referred to the ban imposed on the RSS by the then Home Minister Patel after Gandhi’s assassination in 1948, saying that only he could do so. Reacting to Yadav’s statement on Jinnah, BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi had said that Jinnah is considered a villain in the country and those who are trying to use his name will be of no use.
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