At Rs.695, it is not cheap either.

'My basic purpose of buying this book is just to know what compelled the BJP to take the severe action against its senior party leader and that too just two days after the release of the book,' said Shveta Bhandari.

'I have spent Rs.695 just to quench my curiosity.'

'Shocked by the assertions (of Jaswant Singh after his expulsion) unfolding on television, I was disturbed. So, I purchased the book to know the exact contents,' said another buyer Vikrant Singh.

Most bookshops have displayed the book prominently in the belief that the BJP versus Jaswant Singh conflict will certainly attract customers.

Jaswant Singh has said Jinnah was 'demonised' in India, while it was actually India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel whose belief in a centralised polity had led to the partition of the subcontinent.

Jaswant Singh has also strongly contested the popular Indian view that Jinnah was the villain of the 1947 partition or the man principally responsible for it.

'I think we have misunderstood him because we needed to create a demon... We needed a demon because in the 20th century the most telling event in the subcontinent was the partition of the country,' he said in an interview to a TV channel.