Indore: Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah had "many facets" and was once committed to a unified India, a former chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh has said.
"There were many facets to Jinnah. If you read history correctly, he was with Tilak and was committed to a unified India. If (Mahatma) Gandhi had insisted that Partition would not happen, then it wouldn't have happened," said K S Sudarshan in Indore on Monday when he was asked if the Pakistani leader was secular.
Gandhi started the Khilafat movement because he believed that would be a fight against the British and Muslims will support it. "But at that time, Jinnah opposed it saying that if the Caliph in Turkey has been dethroned what has India got to do with it,” said Sudarshan, a former sarsanghachalak of RSS.
"Then nobody listened to him. This saddened him. So he quit the Congress and left for England and only returned in 1927," he said.
Sudharshan said senior politician Jaswant Singh expulsion from BJP was “an internal matter of the party."
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