Jaswant compares BJP to Ku Klux Klan

NEW DELHI: Jaswant Singh on Wednesday took his attack on BJP a step further by likening it to the violent white American group Ku Klux Klan and suggested that L K Advani was surrounded by a coterie.
Why was he unceremoniously expelled from the party a week ago, the former external affairs minister was asked.
"Please don't ask me. I am outside the magic circle of advisers or thinkers.Because, I am not from the RSS, is that why? So are we a political party? Is the BJP becoming some kind of an Indian version of Ku Klux Klan?" he shot back during an interview.
Ku Klux Klan, widely known as The Klan, is the name of several past and present hate group organisations in the US, whose aim was to protect and further the rights of white Americans by intimidation.
Asked what he meant by reference to KKK, he said, "You know what the Klan means. You don't ask me about this."
Expressing reluctance to analyse why Advani was rejected by the people for the post of prime minister, Jaswant Singh nevertheless said it was for the BJP veteran to reflect on this.
"It would be impertinent and perhaps, to a degree also, I would be commenting on my past 30 years with him if I commented on his characteristics, political or personal," he said.