The Untold Vajpayee

Despite his grand ‘secular’ statements in Parliament that bordered on the Nehruvian Atal Bihari Vajpayee has often taken brief excursions into the hard-line camp. In 1983 he made an incendiary speech during the Assam elections in which the presence of ‘Bangladeshi foreigners’ in the state was a big issue. Even the BJP disowned Vajpayee’s speech which possibly inspired the massacre of over 2000 people mostly Muslims in Nellie Assam the same year. Vajpayee one of the shrewdest politicians of India...See More