Promise of Reason

LAST DAYS I GOT INFORMATION THAT ATAL BIHARI BAJPAYEE IS QUITING INDIAN POLITICS
END OF AN ERA
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s formal induction into politics coincided with the launch of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the first genuine non-Congress party, on the eve of the first general election in 1951. But, in a sense, it was the Quit India movement that fired his nationalist zeal. He was arrested in 1942 for lending his voice to the mounting demand for freedom, little realising that 33 years later, he would make a second journey to prison for the same reason: He was among the stalwarts whom Mrs Indira Gandhi tried to silence, though in vain, during the bleak days of her Emergency. Read the rest of this entry »