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Vajpayee offered to quit as party president following BJP's dismal performance in the election, [42] but stayed in the post until 1986. [43] He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1986 from Madhya Pradesh, [ 44 ] and was briefly the leader of the BJP in Parliament.
This is a summary of the electoral history of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was Prime Minister of India in 1996 and from 1998 till 2004. He was the leader of Bhartiya Janata Party from 1989 to 2004. He was elected ten times to Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament . [ 1 ]
After the 1996 general election, the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament.Vajpayee was invited by President Shankar Dayal Sharma to form a government, but after 13 days in office, proved unable to muster a governing majority and resigned.
The Election Commissioners of India are the members of Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections in India. An election commissioner is appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a three member selection committee headed by the Prime Minister of India .
General elections were held in India on 16, 22 and 28 February 1998 to elect the members of the twelfth Lok Sabha. The elections were held three years ahead of schedule after the government led by Inder Kumar Gujral collapsed when the Indian National Congress (INC) withdrew its support in November 1997. [1]
Shankersinh Vaghela won in the 1989 election and the next election saw L. K. Advani elected in 1991. Atal Bihari Vajpayee won this seat in 1996 but chose to resign it so that he could represent Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. [3] This forced a by-election which was won by Vijay Patel, who defeated film actor Rajesh Khanna (INC), among other ...
The elections resulted in a hung parliament with no single party having a clear majority. [1] The Bharatiya Janata Party , which had won the most seats despite finishing second in the popular vote, formed a short-lived government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee .
As Chief Election Commissioner he was an observer to the elections in Zimbabwe and the U.S Presidential Elections in 2004. In 2005, Krishnamurthy was appointed by the Supreme Court of India to conduct the elections to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (B.C.C.I) in order to ensure free and fair polls amidst the different factions within ...