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Bangladesh: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed "deep shock" at the demise of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and said it is a day of great sadness for the people of Bangladesh. Paying tribute to Vajpayee, Hasina termed him as "one of the most famous sons of India" and a highly respected person in Bangladesh. [18]
Atal Bihari Vajpayee [1] (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician, poet, and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. [2]
Later, the party joined with the BJP and formed another government in 2006. Deve Gowda's son, H. D. Kumaraswamy, headed the BJP-JD(S) coalition government in the state for 20 months. [19] [20] The alliance was defeated in 2008. B. S. Yediyurappa was elected as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. [21] Deve Gowda verbally abused Yediyurappa.
When she died on 03 May 2014, Atal Bihari Vajpayee bedridden after his 2009 stroke, [8] could not attend her last rites due to ill health but numerous political dignitaries viz. L K Advani, Sonia Gandhi, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Jyotiraditya Scindia attended her last rites. RSS pracharak Ramlal was ...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Union Minister of Finance; In office 21 April 1997 – 1 May 1997: Prime Minister: Himself: Preceded by: P. Chidambaram: Succeeded by: P. Chidambaram: Union Minister of External Affairs; In office 1 June 1996 – 19 March 1998: Prime Minister: H. D. Deve Gowda Himself: Preceded by: Sikander Bakht: Succeeded by: Atal Bihari ...
On 6 April 1980, Advani along with few of the erstwhile members of the Jana Sangh quit the Janata Party and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the first president. [24] Though the previous government lasted briefly from 1977 till 1980 and was marred with factional wars, the period saw a rise in support for the RSS ...
The son of former Jammu and Kashmir state chief minister Farooq Abdullah, he joined politics in 1998 after being elected as the youngest member of the Lok Sabha, a feat he repeated in subsequent three elections. He was the union minister of State for External Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's NDA government, from 23 July 2001 to 23 December 2002.