A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace engineer and science administrator. He served as president of India from 2002 to 2007.
Official portrait, c. 2002
Kalam's birthplace in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
Kalam greeting then prime minister Vajpayee on 25 December 2003
Kalam with prime minister designate Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on 19 May 2004
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996. He was the first non-Congress prime minister
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
…his nomination papers in the Indian Parliament. Three sets of nomination papers were filed, one accompanied by the NDA leaders including prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior cabinet members, the second accompanied by Congress including Sonia Gandhi, and the third with leaders from other supporting political…
Official portrait, 1998
Vajpayee addressing a political rally in 1977.
Foreign Minister Vajpayee (far right), President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (far left) and Prime Minister Morarji Desai (third from right, front row) with US President Jimmy Carter during his 1978 visit to India.
Vajpayee with Russian president Vladimir Putin on 6 November 2001