Atal Bihari Vajpayee

From being one of the earliest members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee blossomed into aeading opposition MP by theate 1960s, went on to become external affairs minister in the short-lived Ja ...

From being one of the earliest members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee blossomed into aeading opposition MP by theate 1960s, went on to become external affairs minister in the short-lived Janata government and, finally in 1999, to head the first non-congress 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 right-wing political ideology, Vajpayee did not believe in the politics of exclusion. A protege of Jana Sangh stalwartsike Syama Prasad Mukherjee and deep Dayal Upadh