Can we not tolerate?

Well its not that I am trying to implicate any particular section, since this is increasingly proving to be a momentous one for the one I but I cannot refrain from asking: Why is it not allowed to disagree with the views of our founding fathers?

Why am I expected to toe the line that has been drawn by the leaders of the then young and newly free India. In many cases I have serious disagreements with how things had been done, things I am sure I would have done in a different way should I be in the place of the then leaders.

For instance: The way Nehru went to the UN about Pakistan instead of fighting it out to the end until we had achieved our lost land. What has resulted is status quo. And no progress since.

Why cannot we be more open and liberal about discussing such issues. I am now raising this issue because of the ban of Jaswant Singh's book in Gujarat and the subsequent demands from the Congress unit of Madhya Pradesh to ban the book in that state as well.

I agree that it is very outrageous of Mr Singh that he had praised Md. Ali Jinnah (*), the person we believe was responsible for the circumstances in which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Indians during the weeks of Partition. But how could it be wrong to say that our very own leaders could have done things in a different way.

This is a question I would like someone from both the parties to address in entirety. Not tangentially as it has always been.

* Read the Hindu's editorial from 1948 when Jinnah passed away.