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Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the
Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected the new prime minister of India, replacing
P. V. Narasimha Rao of the
Indian National Congress. However, the party does not receive an overall majority and Vajpayee resigns 13 days later rather than face a no confidence vote, and is replaced by the
United Front, led
Deve Gowda.
