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Speculative post, this one. The plausibility of what I write is for you to judge. Consider the following points:

• BJP has found it tough to woo Muslim voters who form a significant chunk of the total voters
• BJP lost the recent 2009 Loksabha elections badly
• Mr. Advani & BJP are looking for able successors / likeable faces
• Many of the top leaders in BJP are perceived to be hardline Hindutva followers
• Many leaders in the ranks of BJP have an RSS background which automatically render them as hardline Hindutva followers
• Indians are realizing gradually that religions can't be the base of progress and therefore, political parties based on religions can't shape the future of India
• Jaswant Singh handled the critical portfolios – finance, defence and external affairs (hope I recall correctly here ) – reasonably well when BJP was in power earlier

Few more points can be added, all to ask one question: how does BJP make itself look really secular and present a face which can win hearts of people from all walks/religions of life?

The expelling of Jaswant Singh from BJP post the release of his controversial book (on Jinnah and India's partition) could just be one event in a series to transform and resposition BJP and make it ready for the next elections. How?

This book will be read and talked about, that's for sure. And followers of Islam might start looking at Jaswant Singh favourably. Based on Jaswant Singh's credentials, he would be re-inducted into BJP and would be promoted as one of the potential successors to Mr. Advani.

Rest, you can imagine…