Former Indian PM Vajpayee, the gentler face of Hindu nationalism, dies
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who ordered nuclear tests to make India a nuclear weapons power and traveled by bus to Pakistan in a grand diplomatic gesture, died on Thursday, the hospital where he was being treated said in a statement. A poet-politician, Vajpayee was one of the most popular leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But unlike Modi, who critics say is a polarizing figure despite his pledge of inclusive development for India's 1.3 ...
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