New Delhi, (DMA Newsdesk): First it was Arun Shourie, now another senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader - Yashwant Sinha - has openly voiced his opinion against the party's decision to sack Jaswant Singh for his book on Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, saying the move "was not right".

"I agree things would have been handled diffrently if former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was there. BJP dealt with Jaswant Singh unfairly. Jaswant was one of the founder members of the party," Sinha, a former finance minister, told a private news channel in reply to a question on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh last week.

He said the party should not have taken such a decision for a leader "who has served the party for 30 years".

"It was not right for the party to take that decision," he added.

This is the first time Sinha has openly come out on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh for his book Jinnah: India - Partition - Independence, in which he has praised Jinnah.

Former national security advisor (NSA) Brajesh Mishra had also went on a tirade against the party saying L K Advani was part of the decisions taken "unanimously" by the then Cabinet Committee on Security regarding the release of militants to save 160 hostages on the hijacked Indian Airlines plane - IC814 - in 1999.

Advani, a senior BJP leader, was home minister in the then NDA government and has claimed that he was unaware of then foreign minister Jaswant Singh accompanying three freed terrorists for securing the release of 160 hostages was not true.

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