The RSS chief was speaking for the first time since the crisis erputed in the BJP.

He said that he was yet to read the controversial book but promised to read it soon and form his opinion.

'I have not read the book. I haven't got the time to read it, but I will read it. When I have read it, I will also form an opinion.'

Asked about senior Sangh leader H.V. Seshadri's book, 'Tragedy of Pakistan', in which he has held India's first home minister Sardar Patel also responsible for the partition, Bhagwat said: 'He had only chronicled and analysed the events that took place (leading to partition).'

Both Seshadri and Jaswant Singh have held India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel responsible for the partition of the country in 1947.