Obituary

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Hindu leader tolerant of Islam

26 August 2018 - 00:00

By The Daily Telegraph

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the former prime minister of India who has died at the age of 93, was originally regarded as a hard-line Hindu nationalist but came to be widely viewed as the moderate face of the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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