Jaswant invokes Mahabharata to defend himself

New Delhi, Aug 27 (PTI) Expelled Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh has invoked epic Mahabharata
to defend his "covering up" for L K Advani during the election
campaign that the former Home Minister did not know that he
was going with three terrorists in a plane to Kandahar.

"Ashwathama--narowa, kunjarowa," Singh quoted in his
defence from the famous battle field remarks of dharmaraj
Yudishtar to Dronacharya in the epic suggesting the death of
his son suppressing the fact that actually it was an elephant
with the same name that died.

Asked if he regretted that he covered up for Advani,
Singh shot back in an interview to PTI, "No, not at all. This
is great difficulty. I said it in the House also."

He said he did not not regret it because he found it
necessary to stand up for a colleague.

"I spent my early grounding as a soldier. It is the
nation first always and everytime, your colleagues next always
and every time and your own personal good last always and
every time.

"I am a lover of horses. I have grown with horses. You
first have to go and groom the animal, water it, feed it and
only then look after myself. The colleague was in difficulty
so I stood up for a colleague. I don't think I have committed
any wrong," he said. MORE PTI SAP
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