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Article: India bundles out PM after 12 days in office

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May 29, 1996
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New Delhi - India's shortest-lived government in recent history fell yesterday, 12 days after Atal Behari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindu nationalists, took office.

Mr Vajpayee resigned yesterday rather than face a humiliating no-confidence motion in the New Delhi parliament which would have revealed that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government was nearly 100 seats short of the 272 seats needed for a majority.

The Hindu nationalists had watered down their mix of religion and politics, but their last-minute concessions to India's 120 million Muslims failed to win over any MPs. The BJP may be India's largest party, but its Hindu chauvinism has scared away many of the smaller regional parties ...

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