Jaswant Singh has really stirred the hornest's nest by writing a book on Jinnah (following the footsteps of Advani in calling Jinnah a secular man)where he praised Jinnah as a tall leader (I have not read the book, honestly) who was pushed towards partition by Nehru and Patel. Congress is finding faullt for faulting Nehru with partition and BJP for Patel. No one has noticed or brought forth the fact the Gandhiji on whom RSS is laying the blame squarely for partition has been totally spared and that is one more act of heresy as far as RSS/BJP is concerned.
Another aspect every one is harping about is freedom of speech and right to dissent. Freedom of speech does not absolve irresponsibilty and any one professing to be a founder member and senior leader of a party cannot afford to toe a line totally against the party tenets. Jaswant also talked about alienation of the Indian Muslims which Congress and Communists are finding RSS/Jan Sangh/BJP to be the reason. After so far claiming that it was not against Muslims per se, BJP cannot afford to have a senior leader accept that Muslims were alienated. When Varun Gandhi spewed venom, people blamed BJP for not acting (by not expelling him) and when almost a similar act is done by JS, people blame BJP for acting. Hail double standards!!!
JS is hell bent on demolishing or at least tarnishing the party and he has talked of shielding Advani against Kandahar event. Entropy is an inherent quality of any system. Probably BJP is undergoing one of its entropic phases. One can wish and pray that it comes out of it as BJP is needed for Indian democracy.