Jaswant Episode: BJP Dying from within

BJP didn't take any action on Varun Gandhi for his hate speech, however it expels a senior experienced and knowledgeable leader like Jaswant Singh for writing a book. Goes to show what is wrong with the party. Reports indicate that it was Narendra Modi who pushed hard for Jaswant's removal and he also banned the book in Gujarat. Notwithstanding his success in Gujarat, if BJP is to have any future as a Pan-Indian party that befits a modern, secular and growing democracy, it has to drop the hardliners like Modi out from decision making roles.

Either that, or if India is foolish enough to fall for the quasi-theocratic thuggery that the likes of Narendra Modi practice in the name of Hindu Culture or what not, it will become yet another Asian Nation that couldn't keep its religion and state separate, deserving the consequent fate that befalls every other theocratic state.