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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian politician who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first term for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A Padma-Vibhushan awardee, he was the first head of government from outside the Congress party to serve a full five-year term from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The leader has also received the highest honour, Bharat Ratna in 2015 and his birthday was declared 'Good Governance Day'. Other than his political views, Vajpayee is well praised for his poetry.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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    Politics | Jun 27, 2014, 01:39 PM

    Lucknow: He is only a few days old in the Raj Bhavan here. But Uttar Pradesh's acting Governor Aziz Qureshi is already courting controversy.Given additional charge of the state along with Uttarakhand, Qureshi, a former

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    Gopinath Munde should have worn seat belt: Harsh Vardhan

    Politics | Jun 04, 2014, 04:13 PM

    New Delhi: Wearing seat belt could have saved Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde who died in a road accident, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said and announced a major campaign to spread awareness on

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    Modi pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, meets Vajpayee

    Politics | May 26, 2014, 11:37 AM

    New Delhi: Ahead of his swearing-in, Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi Monday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi and visited former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his residence here.Modi had said in a tweet Sunday: "Tomorrow

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    Will never interfere in functioning of BJP govt: RSS

    Politics | May 18, 2014, 04:16 PM

    Jaipur: RSS today said it will not interfere in the functioning of the BJP-led government at the Centre, dismissing suggestions that it was running the party through “remote control”.“Sangh has not given any guidelines to

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    New Delhi: Jubilant even before the results of the Lok Sabha election are declared Friday, the BJP office in Delhi was Thursday decked up and party workers got ready with fire crackers and sweets. In

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    Kashmir furiously debates Modi's rise and rise

    Politics | May 15, 2014, 05:46 PM

    Srinagar: BJP leader Narendra Modi's probable rise to the top job in India invokes both hope and uncertainty among people in Jammu and Kashmir.Whichever way the locals view Modi, nobody doubts that once in power,

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    Pilibhit (UP): Terming the ambitious river-linking plans of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as “extremely dangerous”, party MP Maneka Gandhi has said it was she who had stopped former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee from

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    Modi meets Vajpayee after campaign ends

    Politics | May 11, 2014, 11:09 AM

    New Delhi: BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi Saturday said that he had gone to seek the blessings of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Delhi after the end of the poll campaign."After addressing final

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    New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate candidate Narendra Modi and president Rajnath Singh met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat here to "exchange notes" as the Lok Sabha campaign drew to a close.Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh spokesperson Ram

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    Why no talk of Vajpayee's niece joining Congress: Chidambaram

    Politics | Apr 27, 2014, 05:38 PM

    Vadodara: Seeking to downplay the issue of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's half-brother, Daljeet Singh Kohli, joining BJP, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today asked why nobody made a fuss over Karuna Shukla, former PM Atal

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    BJP blocks its website access in Pak, its PM candidate's is on

    Politics | Apr 22, 2014, 02:31 PM

    Islamabad: People in Pakistan cannot access the BJP website as the saffron party has blocked its Internet page though its high-profile Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's portal can be accessed for those who want to

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    Modi would have sidelined even Vajpayee, says Rahul at Karauli (Rajasthan) rally

    Politics | Apr 20, 2014, 05:59 PM

    Karauli (Rajasthan):  Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi  today said that Narendra Modi would have sidelined even Atal Bihari Vajapee the way he has sidelined Advani and Jaswant Singh.Addressing an election rally at Karauli in Rajasthan,

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    Hingoli (Rajasthan): Vajpayee-Advani partnership has been replaced by Modi-Adani one, Rahul Gandhi said today, taking a jibe at Gujarat Chief Minister and his alleged favours to the Adani group.Addressing a rally here, he said Modi

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    Gujarat development model a 'toffee model': Rahul

    Politics | Apr 14, 2014, 07:09 PM

    Latur (Mah): In a blistering attack on Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today dubbed the Gujarat model propagated by Narendra Modi as a “toffee model”, saying it has benefited only one industrialist in the state, ignoring

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    PMO to seek Modi's views on disclosing his letters with Atal

    Politics | Apr 13, 2014, 03:57 PM

    New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office will take the nod of Gujarat Government and Chief Minister Narendra Modi for releasing the correspondence exchanged with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the post-Godhra riots

 
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