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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) was an Indian statesman and poet, a founder of the Bharatiya Janata Party and prime minister briefly in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004. His government carried out nuclear tests in 1998 and fought the Kargil War with Pakistan in 1999, while also seeking peace through his bus journey to Lahore that year, and it pursued economic liberalisation and a national highway programme.
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