Jaswant Singh has earned the party's ire with his views on Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah in his book 'Jinnah: India - Partition - Independence', released two days ago.

Ironically, Advani's website carried his statement praising Jinnah's professed commitment to secularism and his laudatory speeches during his visit to Pakistan four years ago. It was this remark that earned the ire of the party hardliners then and Advani was forced to offer to resign as party president before saying he had been 'persuaded' to rescind the decision.

Advani, in his autobiography 'My Country, My Life', also defended his views on Jinnah and said criticism of his views at that time were unfounded.