Why Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the BJP’s Pandit Nehru: Notes from a reporter’s diary
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Why Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the BJP’s Pandit Nehru: Notes from a reporter’s diary

Hindustan Times  

A Ratna of Bharat is no more. India’s former prime minister and one of the country’s most-loved and respected leaders, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, died on Thursday evening. At Minar- e- Pakistan “Kya chal raha hai, partner?” What’s up, asked Atal ji, seeking me out of a crowd of journalists at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan on February 21, 1999. It has a valid stamp of its own: Pakistan ki apni mohar hai jo chal rahi hai.” ‘Vajpayee’s Pakistan diplomacy was brave at the time’: HT Conversations Paradigm shift The right wing, anti-India Jamaat-e-Islami later had the Minar washed with rosewater in what it termed the memorial’s ‘ablution’ after Vajpayee set foot there. That prompted the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangth top brass to ask Vajpayee, then a forlorn, marginalised figure in the BJP,, to lead the party in Parliament in Advani’s place.

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