Jaswant deprecates veneration of individual by BJP

Jaswant Singh said he had conveyed his wish of contesting from Barmer to his colleagues in Parliament, including LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Venkaiah Naidu, after which a response was sought from local party office bearers and MLAs, all of whom favoured his candidature.

“Then a myth was put out by the Chief Minister (Vasundhara Raje) when Advani asked ‘if seven MLAs are saying Jaswant Singh, why not him'.

To which the Chief Minister replied (this was told to me by Mr Advani himself) in writing saying Jaswant Singh, but privately didn't favour him.

So, I spoke to some friends here ‘is that what you did' and they said ‘not at all this is total fabrication',” he said.

When asked whether any senior leader of BJP has tried to convince him from withdrawing his candidature as an independent candidate, Singh said he was not bestowed with any such honour.