02183nam a22002537a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801050007608200170018110000210019824500440021926000430026330000180030636500080032452013230033265000160165565000280167165000200169965000270171970000200174694200150176699900170178195201310179820230918153428.0230620b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789391165932  a: Zafaa Books & Distributorsb: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.d: ZBD0154c: 30/08/2023  a954.0531 GHO  aGhose, Sagarika.  aAtal Bihari Bajpayee.c/Sagarika Ghose.  a, New Delhib: Juggernaut Bookc,2021.  a414p.c:24cm.  b899  aAtal Bihari Vajpayee’s life in politics spanned the evolution of Hindutva politics from the days when the Jana Sangh was just a marginal player in Nehru’s India to its rise to power as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His driving ambition from the day he entered Parliament was to make his party the national alternative to the Congress, and this book tells the gripping story of how he achieved this ambition, becoming the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full five-year term, paving the way for the BJP’s political dominance. In many ways Vajpayee represents a bridge between the Nehruvian age and the Narendra Modi years. Spellbinding orator, coalition builder, wise statesman, benevolent father figure, Vajpayee was also a bundle of contradictions. He was both Hindutva loyalist and liberal centrist; eloquent poet and ruthless political tactician; faithful member of the puritanical Sangh Parivar who never hid his unconventional personal life. The political leader whom even his opponents dubbed ‘the good man in the bad party’, he became – with all his flaws and weaknesses – arguably India’s most loved prime minister. Deeply researched, and with new insights and anecdotes from his closest confidants, this is the most revealing personal portrait there is of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.  aBiographies  aPolitics and government  aPrime ministers  aVajpayee, Atal Bihari.  aSagarika Ghose.  cCHILD BOOK  c60406d60406  00102ddc4071aSNULbSNULd2023-06-20eZafaa Booksg899.00o954.0531 GHOp29392r2023-06-20 00:00:00w2023-06-20yCHILD BOOK