Originally posted by aneeshm
@ Oredin
Atal Behari Vajpayee was not the Hindu nationalist . His party stayed in power due to a coalition of allies , and one of his allies was the Hindu nationalist party , the VHP and the RSS . Thus , he had to bow to some of their decisions . He was , in fact , the person who tried his best to curb this tendency ( and mostly succeeded ) . It was the rest of his party members who were more vocal Hindu nationalists . And Hindu nationalism had died down quite a bit after the election .
@ Oredin
Atal Behari Vajpayee was not the Hindu nationalist . His party stayed in power due to a coalition of allies , and one of his allies was the Hindu nationalist party , the VHP and the RSS . Thus , he had to bow to some of their decisions . He was , in fact , the person who tried his best to curb this tendency ( and mostly succeeded ) . It was the rest of his party members who were more vocal Hindu nationalists . And Hindu nationalism had died down quite a bit after the election .
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