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.
Read MoreJammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for denying ticket to its senior party leader Jaswant Singh.Omar accused the BJP of denying nomination to people
New Delhi: The coming Lok Sabha election "is more crucial" than the 1977 election that for the first time ended the Congress rule nationally, economist Lord Meghnad Desai has said."This may be the first time
Jodhpur: Upset over denial of ticket, former Union Minister and BJP veteran Jaswant Singh today said he has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections as an independent from the Barmer seat and will file
Jodhpur : Angry over denial of ticket to him in the Lok Sabha elections, Jaswant Singh today attacked the BJP leadership, saying there was need to differentiate between “real” and “fake” BJP as whatever was
New Delhi: Taking potshots at Congress, rival BJP today claimed that the decision of Finance Minister P Chidambaram to opt out of the Lok Sabha poll race indicated the state of affairs in the party
Lucknow: Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's name evokes a lot of respect here and the contest for Lucknow, from where BJP president and former state chief minister Rajnath Singh is contesting this time, will
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress “is an anarchy with an autocrat” at the helm but it's an “anarchy which works”, says rebel MP Kabir Suman, describing a party wobbling in its efforts to create ripples at
Bhopal: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla, who quit BJP and joined Congress recently, on Sunday said the era of veteran leaders like Vajpayee and L K Advani in the saffron party
Hubli: BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today slammed Congress and its leaders for their attitude towards various problems faced by the country, especially women's issues, saying "they speak as though they have come from
Panaji: In an apparent reference to the media blitzkrieg around the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi supported decentralisation of power here today, while toeing his “vote for the country,
New Delhi: The veteran politician Atal Bihari Vajpayee created a niche for himself through his subtle and calm approach. Loaded with four decade long experiences in the field of politics Vajpayee was able to create
Jammu: Asserting that PDP in 2002, like Aam Aadami Party (AAP) now, had introduced a new moral factor in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today recalled how the party
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office has refused to disclose communication exchanged between former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots even after 11 years.Responding to an
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee got his bungalow number changed from 8 to 6-A, Krishna Menon Marg, as the number 8 was considered unlucky, a response to an RTI query reveals. RTI
New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari today said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did not follow Raj Dharma after the 2002 Gujarat riots in which more than 1,000 Muslims were killed.
Morena (MP): BJP President Rajnath Singh blamed the Congress-led UPA government here today for failing to control rising inflation and claimed that during NDA rule, inflation was unable to raise its head for six years
Raisen (MP): Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia today said Vidisha-Raisen region in Madhya Pradesh remained backward despite it being represented earlier by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.Scindia also alleged that Leader of Opposition in Lok
New Delhi: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cadres burst firecrackers and beat drums to celebrate Narendra Modi's nomination as the party's prime ministerial candidate, it was in the quiet environs of the Rashtriya
New Delhi, Aug 12 : Delhi Finance Secretary Shakti Sinha, who once served as joint secretary to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Sunday said he has sought voluntary retirement from service due to personal
New Delhi, Jul 25: A major slugfest erupted today over BJP MP Chandan Mitra's demand for stripping nobel laureate Amartya Sen of the Bharat Ratna award and the economist offering to return it if Atal
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