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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman, who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India thrice- including brief first term in 1996 and two terms from 1998 to 2004. After a brief stint as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from 19 March 1998 until 19 May 2004. A veteran Parliamentarian whose career stretches over four decades, Shri Vajpayee has been elected to the Lok Sabha (House of the People) nine times and to the Rajya Sabha (House of the States) twice, a record by itself. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from Lucknow until 2009, and has since retired from active politics, possibly due to ill-health. » Read more on Wikipedia.org

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 Coal scam: Parl panel report tabled - India Blooms
2013-04-23
Demanding PM's resignation, BJP leaader Murli Manohar Joshi said: "The Prime Minister must resign for the interference with the CBI report and for dragging the name of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in it." Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi has dismissed ...
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  1. coal mines not in production between 1993 2010 should be scrapped ...
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 Nitish`s opposition to Narendra Modi an eye-wash: Lalu
2013-04-13
Nitish`s opposition to Narendra Modi an eye-wash: Lalu. "If he is genuinely opposed to Modi why did he not quit as minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government after the Gujarat riots in 2002," Prasad questioned. The RJD chief said the talk of ...
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  1. JD(U) opposes Modi as PM, calls Congress 'enemy'
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 Rail Budget 2013: Budget disappoints UPA opponents, allies
2013-02-27
The JD(U) leader, who was railway minister in the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, accused the UPA government of "lacking courage" and resorting to "cleverness" by increasing fares in January itself and not announcing any fare hike in the ...
(Times of India)
  1. Cowardly UPA government resorting to cleverness: Nitish Kumar
  2. Andhra Pradesh opposition parties flay Railway Budget
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 NCTC: I have noted your concerns, PM to CMs
2012-02-21
It may be mentioned that the National Democratic Alliance government under the leadership of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in power during the period. “As you may be aware, the idea of such a centre has been under consideration by Government ...
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    		 'Centre stalling Bihar's development'
    2012-02-20
    Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, in a speech that could match any of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's orations in its lyrical quality, on Sunday put the onus of the state's development at the Centre's doorstep.
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      		 Telecom official sent to jail for forging letter in PM's name
      2012-01-18
      A former telecom department official has been sentenced to three and half years in jail for forging letters in the name of the then Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and HD Deve Gowda to get a transfer to Sagar in Madhya Pradesh where his family was ...
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      1. Telecom official jailed for forging letter in PM's name to obtain transfer
      2011
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      		 NDA had mooted 100% FDI in retail
      2011-11-29
      The emerged from a decision of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government to review FDI caps for all sectors. Although the matter did not go beyond the GoM level, the NDA Vision document for the 2004 elections, hosted on the BJP website, had also made a case ...
      (Times of India)
      1. Poll compulsion makes BJP voice shriller
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      		 Did Vajpayee government sleep for a year over intelligence alert on Kargil?
      2011-11-28
      NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had knowledge about infiltration from the neighbouring country in 1998, but his government did not pay attention to intelligence reports on the Pakistan Army's intrusions in Kargil in 1999, ...
      (Economic Times)
      1. IB alerted PM on Pak build-up a yr before Kargil
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      		 UPA scandals, scams a national shame – Advani
      2011-11-16
      Recalling the Atal Bihari Vajpayee led NDA governments ambitious program of interlinking 130 rivers of the country, he said that it was estimated to cost about Rs 10 lakh crore and could easily be met out of the unaccounted money lying deposited in ...
      (Hill Post)