Atal Bihari Vajpayee Video: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, “I think Narasimha Rao began to feel that corruption had reached its peak and that it could become an obstacle to his becoming Prime Minister again. In such a situation, he decided that whoever had to be sacrificed would be sacrificed, but he would try to clean up his image. However, without implicating member

Zee Archive Atal Bihari Vajpayee Video: During the Narasimha Rao government, Atal Bihari Vajpayee went to Geneva leading an Indian delegation as the Leader of the Opposition. Recalling the incident, the former Prime Minister said, “When Narasimha Rao asked me to lead the Indian delegation, I agreed after discussing it with party leaders. Seeing me there, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was completely taken aback. She said on television that there is an India where a delegation is led by the leader of the opposition, and there is a Pakistan where the leader of the opposition stays at home and only keeps criticizing me.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Video: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was known as a renowned poet. So how did he end up walking the thorny path of politics? Revealing this, the Prime Minister said, “Politics was never my first destination. I used to write poetry and wanted to become a journalist. But when Shyama Prasad Mukherjee passed away during detention in Srinagar, I decided to enter politics to complete his unfinished work. Politics was never my first subject, but now it is not something I can leave either. By doing so, I would not want to be called guilty of desertion.

Zee Archive Atal Bihari Vajpayee Video: In an interview, Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, “There is no contradiction in this. We have opposed socialist ideology and consider it a complete ideology. As far as the element of equality in it is concerned, we support that. But when it comes to its doctrinal aspect, we disagree with it. However, the Indira government amended the Constitution of the country and made it mandatory for all parties, after which our party also included secularism and socialism in its preamble.

Zee Archive: A story about the 1971 war between India and Pakistan often comes up in discussions. It is said that after the victory in the war, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had called Indira Gandhi an incarnation of Durga. Calling this claim false, Atal ji said in an interview, “In the Bangladesh war, I certainly praised Indira Gandhi’s role. She deserved that praise, but I never called her an incarnation of Durga. I have been a devotee of Durga. She subdues demons and destroys the wicked, but she never puts her own people in jail.”