Word: atal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Asked whether his forthright nuclear stance invited criticism from Western powers concerned about a South Asian arms race, Atal Bihari Vajpayee said: "We are not concerned with anyone's displeasure...
...DELHI: You?re elected to lead a fragile minority coalition government, expecting your tenure will be nasty, brutish and short. What to do? Go nuclear, of course. Hindu nationalist Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in today as prime minister and restated his election promise to ?exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons? into India?s arsenal...
...difficulty governing France, as legend has it, derives from its more than 400 types of cheese, pity the Indian politician who has to rule a nation with easily as many deities. That politician, for now, is Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who will be at the mercy of the fractious and often self-serving regional parties whose votes guarantee his majority. Vajpayee was prime minister for 13 days in 1996, and this time the pundits don?t give him more than a year. Just enough time for Sonia Gandhi to build...
...Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was sworn in last week, but only because his party and its allies took the largest single bloc in the 545-member chamber. Vajpayee faces an uphill struggle to hold on to power, however. He must survive a constitutionally mandated vote of confidence before May 31, and his alliance is 74 seats short of a majority. Though buying political loyalty is not unheard of in India, recruiting that many politicians so quickly would be difficult even under normal circumstances--and these are hardly normal...
...CANDIDATES] P.V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party candidate...