For Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra, battle for Barmer goes beyond politics

In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Jaswant contested as an Independent from Barmer and lost to BJP candidate Sonaram Chaudhary.

In 2009, Jaswant Singh —foreign, defence and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, founder member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and member of the highest body in the party, the Parliamentary Board — was stripped of the primary membership of the BJP (only to be reinducted a year later). 

The proximate reason for the expulsion was Singh’s evaluation of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, considered the father of Pakistan, in a book authored by him. The book was termed ‘adulatory’ of a hate object of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was slammed by large sections of the BJP, most specifically,