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General elections were held in India between 5 September and 3 October 1999, a few months after the Kargil War.Results were announced on 6 October 1999. [1] [2]The elections saw the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party win a majority in the Lok Sabha, the first time since 1984 that a party or alliance had won an outright majority and the second since the 1977 ...
In 1999, Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won the general election, the first non-Congress alliance to do so, and he served a full five-year term as prime minister. [18] The Congress and its United Progressive Alliance won the general elections in 2004 and 2009, Manmohan Singh serving as prime minister between 2004 and 2014. [19]
11 May – India's Supreme Court confirms death sentences for four of the 26 people convicted of conspiring to assassinate former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991. 17 May – Sonia Gandhi resigns as head of India's main opposition Congress party after criticism from three senior colleagues. Congress expels the three for six years on 20 May.
Kargil War Part of the Kashmir conflict and the India–Pakistan conflict Indian soldiers after capturing a hill from Pakistani forces Date 3 May – 26 July 1999 (2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Kargil district, Jammu and Kashmir (now Ladakh), India Result Indian victory India regains possession of Kargil Territorial changes Status quo ante bellum Belligerents India Pakistan Commanders ...
In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000, Venkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik (), Satyabrata Mukherjee (West Bengal), Kanyakumari MP P.Radhakrishnan and film star-turned-MP U V Krishnam Raju (Andhra Pradesh) as minister of state.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee [1] (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician, poet, and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. [2]
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) 2 1 2.3 Communist Party Of India (CPI) 2 0 2.6 Uttar Pradesh(85) NDA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 77: 29: 27.64: Akhil Bharatiya Lok Tantrik Congress: 4 2 1.51 Independent: 1 1 3.62 Janata Dal (United) 2 0 0.6 Congress+: Indian National Congress: 76 10 14.72 Rashtriya Lok Dal: 6 2 2.49 Republican Party ...