Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday strongly backed the resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan, asserting that peaceful engagement is the only way to resolve outstanding issues.
The question remains even today: on what legal basis can the Jana Sangh or the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh conclusively be called fascist? They were accused of being anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, but these accusations were never decisively established in legal terms.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have paid off and the country's name is now flying high in the world.
After inaugurating the Rashtriya Prerna Stha and unveiling the statues of Jan Sangh founder Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya in Lucknow, Mr Modi said the BJP's values teach respect for everyone which no one can expect from the Congress or the Samajwadi Party.
Singh became Chief Minister of Punjab in 2002 and continued until 2007. At the same time, Vajpayee was the PM from 1999 to 2004.
Thakur said Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a great statesman and visionary who realized the dream of good governance and the development of the nation with determination and farsightedness.
In a tweet, the Prime Minister said; "Today, on his Punya Tithi went to Sadaiv Atal and paid tributes to him."
"Vajpayee used to be a heavy drinker. He needed two glasses of Whiskey every day," Priyank Kharge stated in Kalburgi on Saturday.
The Chief Minister later garlanded the statue of Atal Bihari Vajpayee installed in the newly constructed Lok Bhawan.
Vajpayee was to use his brilliant 'Sherpa' and handpicked Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh, for thawing and warming relations with Saudi Arabia, in particular. Jaswant, with a manifest sense of history and destiny would soon charm the House of Saud with his own desert ancestry and lifelong interest in horses
