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BJP to organise events across India to mark one month of Vajpayee’s death
BJP workers will host a poetry event in 4,000 places on September 16, during which audio recordings of Vajpayee’s poems will be played. The second event will start from September 17, the birthday of PM Modi and continue till the birth anniversary of party ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on September 25.
Updated on Aug 30, 2018 06:27 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Aishwarya Rai pens tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, shares throwback photos on Instagram
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan paid a moving tribute to the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday. The actor posted a series of photo from 2000 to her Instagram and captioned it, “Respect. Rest In Peace.”
Updated on Aug 20, 2018 02:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A paradox who defied categorisation
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s public display of unease at BJP’s turn towards more militant Hindutva politics and the Babri mosque demolition; his desire to take strong action after the 2002 riots; focus on economic reforms; and perpetual quest to improve ties with Pakistan have been cited to suggest that he was actually a man who had moved far beyond the confines of a particular ideology.
Updated on Aug 18, 2018 11:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Prashant Jha
When Vajpayee’s ‘Kahan hai mera Kislay’ remark shook Bihar govt and saved kidnapped boy
Kislay was 14 years old when he was kidnapped in Patna on January 19, 2005. The incident sparked a massive public outcry against the spurt in kidnappings of schoolchildren in the state, where the law and order situation was at its worse under the RJD government.
Updated on Aug 18, 2018 04:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | HT Correspondent
Vajpayee saw gun was no solution in Kashmir
A ceasefire along the Line of Control was agreed upon in November 2003 and largely observed. Cross-border bus services and trade was introduced between two sides of Kashmir. Vajpayee met separatists in January 2004 while Pakistan put its insistence on the implementation of UN resolution for a plebiscite on the backburner.
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 11:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Srinagar | Mir Ehsan
The UP constituency from where Vajpayee’s journey as parliamentarian started
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s journey as a parliamentarian started from Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh in 1957. He lost the election when he contested again in 1962, but was re-elected from Balrampur Lok Sabha constituency in 1967.
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 11:30 PM IST
Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh) | Press Trust of India
Vajpayee raised politics beyond party lines, says Akhilesh
The last rites for former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were performed by his foster daughter Namita Bhattarcharya at Smriti Sthal on the banks of the Yamuna with full state honours on Friday evening.
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 11:38 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Vajpayee nursed BJP into a banyan tree in Indian politics: Amit Shah pays tribute
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first non-Congress leader to serve a full term in power and who ordered nuclear tests to make India a nuclear weapons power, died on Thursday.
Updated on Aug 16, 2018 10:35 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
We have lost an Atal Ratna: PM Modi mourns Vajpayee’s death
PM Narendra Modi said Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death has left a void that cannot be fulfilled.
Updated on Aug 16, 2018 10:23 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Schools, govt offices to be shut today in memory of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first non-Congress leader to serve a full term in power and who ordered nuclear tests to make India a nuclear weapons power, died on Thursday, after prolonged illness.
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 12:08 AM IST
New Delhi/Lucknow/Chandigarh | HT Correspondents
Vajpayee was stable for nine weeks, condition deteriorated in last 36 hours: AIIMS
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee had announced retirement from electoral politics in 2005 and withdrew further from public life in 2009 after suffering a stroke that weakened his cognitive abilities. Subsequently, he developed dementia.
Published on Aug 16, 2018 07:18 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
There was no ego attached to his creativity: Pavan K Varma on Vajpayee the poet
Atal Bihari Vajpayee wrote poetry, but there was never a sense of overriding ego attached to his creativity. He took his personal and public achievements lightly, with a sense of abandon, but without devaluing them in any way.
Updated on Aug 16, 2018 05:39 PM IST
New Delhi | Pavan K Varma