Vajpayee remaining the Prime Minister until the elections were held.

The former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, mentioned the movie as an example for ignorance by Kerala towards global economic changes during the inauguration of Global Investor Meet held at Kochi on 18 January 2003.

Uma Bharti, Govindacharya, Kalyan Singh and Shanker Singh Vaghela, all of whom were members of the BJP then, are held primarily responsible for the destruction of the mosque and the report says that they could have prevented the assault. Senior BJP leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are called “ pseudo-moderates ”.

In 2001, several Youth Congress workers held Lalkar Rally around Parliament of India to protest against UTI Scam under National Democratic Alliance government and asked for resignation of then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee remained a caretaker prime minister till the elections were held later that year.

* Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was Prime Minister also held additional charge of Ministry of Railways.

In July 2003, Prime Minister Vajpayee, visited China, and met with various Chinese leaders.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

Both his Indian contemporaries, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Manmohan Singh have visited the United States at various times.

President Narayanan returned for reconsideration the advices from the Union cabinet to impose President's rule in a state, in accordance with Article 356, in two instances: one from the Gujral government ( 22 October 1997 ) seeking to dismiss the Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, and the other from the Vajpayee government ( 25 September 1998 ) seeking to dismiss the Rabri Devi government in Bihar.

Later, when BJP formed a government in India under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Joshi served as the Human Resource Development Minister in the cabinet.

* 19 March – Vajpayee takes office after assembling a diverse cabinet reflecting his 13-party coalition.

Yashwant Sinha ( born November 6, 1937, Patna ) is an Indian politician and a former finance minister of India ( 1990 – 1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and March 1998 – July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ) and foreign minister ( July 2002 – May 2004 ) in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.

The BJP was invited to form the government, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed a cabinet, but could not convince any other groups to support it and lost the confidence motion.

RVP was floated by the former communications minister of the Vajpayee cabinet, Buta Singh.

A year later the Janta Dal split and Patnaik founded the Biju Janta Dal which in alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) performed well and Patnaik was selected the Union Minister for Mines in the cabinet of A. B. Vajpayee.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( office: 19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004 ) placed the development of Information Technology among his top five priorities and formed the Indian National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development.

The new administration under Atal Bihari Vajpayee — which placed the development of Information Technology among its top five priorities — formed the Indian National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development.

He has served as Law Minister of India and also as Minister of Urban Development during the Prime Ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee against whom he later on contested election in General Elections 0f 2004 from Lucknow constituency.

Under former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India launched a massive program of highway upgrades, called the National Highway Development Project ( NHDP ), in which the main north-south and east-west connecting corridors and highways connecting the four metropolitan cities have been fully paved and widened into four-lane highways.

Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, Advani became the Minister of Information and Broadcasting and his close friend and Jana Sangh senior colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the External Affairs Minister.

Former BJS leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L. K. Advani became the External Affairs ( Foreign ), and Information and Broadcasting Ministers respectively.

BJS leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani were respectively given charge of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Prime Minister Morarji Desai and the Minister of External Affairs Atal Bihari Vajpayee began significant changes in India's foreign policy, moving away from the course adopted by Indira's government.

In May 1996, Atal Bihari Vajpayee offered Bakht the post of Minister of Urban Affairs when he formed his government.

He became The Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs in 1996 in the Government of India led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

During the second tenure of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he was given the portfolio of Union Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment in 1998.

After Vajpayee became Prime Minister again two years later, he became Minister for External Affairs of India, serving from December 5, 1998 until July 1, 2002.

In the government of Vajpayee, Singh was External Affairs Minister.

In 1998 Barnala was again elected to Parliament and became Chemical Fertlizers Food and Consumer Affairs in the Vajpayee Cabinate

* Values, vision & verses of Vajpayee: India's man of destiny.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ; profile & personal views ( Know thy leaders ).

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Re – elected in 1999 and inducted as a Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Rudy subsequently became Civil Aviation Minister with an independent charge in the National Democratic Alliance government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Few initiatives taken in post-independence of India for developing Kalahandi were only during non-congress rule in India such as Upper Indiravati Irrigation Project ( during Moraji Desai as Prime Minister of India ), Lanjigarh road-Jungarh ( during Chandrasekhar as Prime Minister of India ), National Highway 201 & 217 passing through Kalahandi ( during Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister of India ), all these projects are not yet fully accomplished.

The canal was first proposed in the late 19th century during the British Raj, and finally on 13 March 2003, the Central Government of India, headed by then Prime Minister Vajpayee, gave the go ahead.

Previously, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had taken office in October 1999 after a general election in which a BJP-led coalition of 13 parties called the National Democratic Alliance emerged with a majority.

* May 17 – 28 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected the new prime minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress.

However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns 13 days later rather than face a no confidence vote, and is replaced by the United Front, led Deve Gowda.

Several notable leaders such as Chandra Shekhar Azad, B. R. Ambedkar, Shankar Dayal Sharma and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were born in what is now Madhya Pradesh.

The former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee suggested in 2004 introducing legislation banning the slaughter of cows throughout India, as Hinduism holds cows as sacred and considers their slaughter unthinkable and offensive.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( born 25 December 1924 in Gwalior ) is an Indian statesman who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004.

Vajpayee was one amongst the founder members of erstwhile Jana Sangh and had been its president also.

The first non-congressman to run a government for its full term, Vajpayee is often regarded as one of the best prime minister of India.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in a respected middle class Brahmin family.

His grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee, had migrated to Gwalior from his ancestral village of Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh and his father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, was a poet and a schoolmaster in his hometown.

Vajpayee attended Gwalior's Victoria College ( now Laxmi Bai College ) and graduated with distinctions in Hindi, English and Sanskrit.

For a while Vajpayee studied law, but midstream he chose to become a journalist.

He edited Rashtradharma ( a Hindi monthly ), Panchjanya ( a Hindi weekly ) and the dailies Swadesh and Veer Arjun. Like other full-time workers of the Sangh, Vajpayee never married and decided to dedicate his entire life for the service of the nation.

In 1954 Vajpayee was with Mukherjee when he went on a fast-unto-death in Kashmir to protest against perceived inferior treatment of non-Kashmiri Indian visitors to the state.

In 1957, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha, where his oratorical skills so impressed the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become India's Prime Minister.

After the tragic death of Deendayal Upadhyaya, the mantle of the leadership of Jana Sangh fell on the shoulders of the young Vajpayee.

In 1977, heeding the call of Jayaprakash Narayan for all the opposition parties to unite against the Congress, Vajpayee led the Jana Sangh to merge with the Janata Party.