The many faces of Atal Bihari Vajpayee | See rare pics
Former prime minister died at 93 on August 16. The BJP stalwart breathed his last at AIIMS in New Delhi. Here is a look at a few photos you may have not seen before.
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Vajpayee led an uneasy coalition of nearly two dozen parties with great poise for six years between 1998 and 2004 | Photo: India Today Archives
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He was an active Communist teenager in the Madhya Pradesh of the 1930s, when Mahatma Gandhi was leading a formidable fight against the British colonial power | Photo: India Today Archives
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Vajpayee entered the Lok Sabha as a member for the first time in 1957. He went on to win nine more Lok Sabha elections after that | Photo: India Today Archives
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For his political and diplomatic acumen, Vajpayee was rightly called the "Great Connector" | Photo: India Today Archives
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As foreign minister, he opened channels of communications with China and the Middle East | Photo: India Today Archives
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He wrote an emotionally charged poem on the partition called 15 August Ki Pukaar (Call of 15 August) | Photo: India Today Archives
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His Kashmir policy is often described as "Insaaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat" or "humanity, democracy and preservation of Kashmiri culture" | Photo: India Today Archives
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Many called him the greatest prime minister that India ever had with some other giving Pandit Nehru a slight edge over Vajpayee | Photo: India Today Archives
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Photograph of Vajpayee flagging off Delhi Metro operations in 2002 and buying a metro ticket | Photo: India Today Archives
