New Delhi: A new letter bomb has hit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Party's vice president Pyarelal Khandelwal has written a letter which terms Jaswant Singh's expulsion as a hasty decision.
Khandelwal has written the letter to party president Rajnath Singh, L K Advani and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
He has alleged that some leaders in the party ganged up to expel the former foreign minister.
"Proper procedure was not followed. Jaswant's expulsion should be reconsidered," says the letter.
And it's not just that the BJP is facing the ire over the issue within the party, even its allies in NDA have criticised the move to abruptly expel Jaswant Singh.
After Janata Dal United leader Sharad Yadav questioned the unceremonious sacking of Jaswant Singh over his Jinnah book, it's now the turn of the BJP's oldest ally Shiv Sena.
In a sharply worded editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamna, Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said: "What has happened to the BJP? Is their leadership gripped with swine flu or some other disease?"
But on a more charitable note, Thackeray said he firmly believed the BJP would recover and come out of this situation and the party will not hold them to ransom ahead of the Maharashtra polls.