WHY TWO OLD MEN WERE TREATED DIFFERENTLY?

It was a genuine question which strike to my mind and might have stroked others, whom even I don’t know… The question goes like this: why Advani and Jaswant Singh were treated differently for the same crime. Both praised Jinnah but one had to resign from the President ship of the BJP, while other has to end his political career in BJP. This issue might be 4 point some months old but I found it, still in the last day of this English year 2009, in the column of my diary titled TO BE ANSWERED...

Narendra Modi banned Jaswant Singh’s book in Gujarat on the grounds that it denigrates that great son-of-the-soil hero, the ‘Iron Man’. Jaswant was expelled on 19^th Aug., he cried in front of media, Prabhu Chawla disturbed him like anything and so on. 
...............It is the reflection of the democratic culture we believe in. How can we punish (if you say it was not punishment, I can argue it was not an endowment either) someone just because s/he has a difference in opinion on the fact of history. This BJP people have to realize we are not in the era of Galileo, where the Catholic Church will condemn heliocentrism as "false and contrary to Scripture" and will warn Galileo to abandon his support for it and when he will later defend his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, he will be forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

"I disagree vehemently with what you say, but I shall defend to my death your right to say it." This dialogue of Voltaire is foreign to BJP and the same liners because suppression of all dissent is considered as parampara (tradition of great pride) here. My friends in KIIT may find it alien because Prof. Mustafa, Mr. Yogesh and Mr. Kartik had taught us in different line of thinking- to celebrate the differences, to respect the diversity and to defend others right to speak.  

However, my intention today is not to fight for it. I have in mind today to mark a line of difference between A and J. Pakistan govt. had invited Advani to lay the foundation stone for the ancient Katas Raj temples in Chakwal district. He had visited the Qaid-e-Azam mausoleum where he made entry in the visitor’s book and mentioned ‘There are many people who leave an inerasable stamp on history. There are very few who actually create history. Qaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah was one such rare individual.’ Secondly he remarked, ‘Sarojini Naidu, a leading luminary of India’s freedom struggle, described him as an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity. His address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947, is really a classic, a forceful espousal of a secular state…’ But the media wala of this country highlighted it in a fashion which ultimately costs Advani. So, there is no mens rea of Advani for praising Jinnah. But Jaswant Singh wrote the book knowing well that even LKA could not survive his praise of Jinnah. This was the line of difference between two.

Here I am neither trying to defend the action and steps of BJP nor saying that what J has done is a blunder .... I am simply filling up the column to write ANSWERED next to it. So, that a fresh diary will not have old questions pending.