Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian politician and statesman from the Bharatiya Janata Party and its predecessor erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh who served three terms as the 10th 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. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the BJP. He was a member of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He was the first Indian prime minister not of the INC to serve a full term in office. He was also a renowned poet and a writer.

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