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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_bSAR/AT _a923.254
100			_aSagarika Ghose
245			_aATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
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260			_aNew Delhi _bJuggernaut Publication _c2021
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500			_aAtal Bihari Vajpayee’s life in politics spanned the evolution of Hindutva politics from the days when the Jana Sangh was just a marginal player in Nehru’s India to its rise to power as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His driving ambition from the day he entered Parliament was to make his party the national alternative to the Congress, and this book tells the gripping story of how he achieved this ambition, becoming the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full five-year term, paving the way for the BJP’s political dominance. In many ways Vajpayee represents a bridge between the Nehruvian age and the Narendra Modi years. Spellbinding orator, coalition builder, wise statesman, benevolent father figure, Vajpayee was also a bundle of contradictions. He was both Hindutva loyalist and liberal centrist; eloquent poet and ruthless political tactician; faithful member of the puritanical Sangh Parivar who never hid his unconventional personal life. The political leader whom even his opponents dubbed ‘the good man in the bad party’, he became – with all his flaws and weaknesses – arguably India’s most loved prime minister. Deeply researched, and with new insights and anecdotes from his closest confidants, this is the most revealing personal portrait there is of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
650			_aBiography
650			_aAtal Bihari Vajpayee
650			_aPersonal Life
650			_aPrime Minister -- India
650			_aInterviews
650			_aPolitics
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