'Obstinate' Nehru denied PM post to Jinnah, caused Partition: BJP LS candidate

BJP's Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha candidate Guman Singh Damor stoked a controversy, claiming that Partition could have been avoided if Jawaharlal Nehru had allowed Mohammad Ali Jinnah to be prime minister.

Reacting to the BJP leader's comment, the Congress said Damor does not know history and asked him to contest polls in Pakistan.

Damor, in an election rally on Saturday in Ranapur town said, "If (India's first prime minister) Nehru was not obstinate during the time of Independence, then this nation would not have been divided into two."

"Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan) was an advocate and a learned man. If a decision was taken to make Jinnah PM at the time, then India would not have been partitioned," he claimed.

Ranapur is a town in the Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha constituency.

Earlier, several BJP leaders have held Jinnah responsible for Partition and Nehru of coming in the way of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel from becoming prime minister.

Damor alleged that the Congress created the problems ..