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Rupa Publications India ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS by Kingshuk Nag
From being one of the earliest members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee blossomed into a leading opposition MP by the late 1960s, went on to become External Affairs Minister in the shortlived Janata government and, finally in 1999, to head the first nonCongress government to complete a full term in office That it was a coalition government made the feat all the more remarkable, and testifies to the fact that though wedded to a rightwing political ideology, Vajpayee did not believe in the politics of exclusion