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Shakti Sinhaâs Book Gives An Insiderâs View Of The Vajpayee PMO, And Of His Mission For His Motherland
by Aravindan Neelakandan - Dec 29, 2020 08:14 AM
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Prakash Singh/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Snapshot
Shakti Sinhaâs book on Atal Bihari Vajpayee gives an insiderâs view in a matter-of-fact style.
It is interesting for the reader and valuable for history.
Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India.
Shakti Sinha. Penguin Random House. 368 pages. Rs 529.
Why was it that Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not get Jaswant Singh to be the Finance Minister though Singh was his choice?
The general impression among the political observers is that the then RSS chief, K S Sudarshan, did not want Singh in the Finance Ministry because his economic ideas clashed with the rigid