Difference between Indira Gandhi and Vajpayee as Prime Minister
Engineer Shyam Sundar Poddar, MBA, Director, Rajiv Gandhi Research Bureau
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee were both very popular among the public. But a minute study of both of their contributions to the nation presents startling facts.Neighbouring Pakistan threatens India, this has been its nature since 1947. Pakistan’s military ruler Yahya Khan abused Indira Gandhi thinking that she would get scared. Indira Gandhi hit Yahya Khan so hard that she broke Pakistan into two pieces.
When threatened by Pakistan, Vajpayee used to say that we cannot change our neighbour. He went as an uninvited guest sitting in a bus on the Lahore Yatra. The Pakistani rulers compelled him so much that they made him salute the Minar-e-Pakistan, whereas Pakistan, after its division into two parts by Indira Gandhi, did not have the courage to even threaten India, let alone look towards India.After 2004, Pakistan came onto Indian soil and fought Kargil. Since then Pakistan has been doing naked dance of terrorism in India. Jaswant Singh had to go to Pakistan to release the terrorists after the hijacking of the plane. So much insult to the country, so much insult.Indira Gandhi nationalized the banks of the country, nationalized coal mines and strengthened the wealth of the country. Vajpayee, to give Rs 10,000 crore to his daughter and son-in-law born out of his mistress, sold the Government of India Navratna companies – Bharat Aluminium and Hindustan Zinc.Vajpayee gave the first reaction on the murder of Deendayal Upadhyay – Deendayal was a quarrelsome man, he must have fought with someone and he threw him from the train. Then he became the president of Jansangh.For BJP, Indira Gandhi used to get orders from Russia that our man Vajpayee should win the 1971 election. When this news was published in Current weekly, Balraj Madhok, the founder minister who took Bharatiya Jansangh from 3 seats to 34 seats in 15 years and made it the largest opposition party, formed Jansangh government in Delhi, formed government with Lok Dal in Uttar Pradesh, when Balraj Madhok wrote to Advani who was the president of Jansangh that this news in Current has caused a huge blow to the reputation of Jansangh, we should file a defamation case against Current, Advani, instead of taking that step, expelled the founder of Jansangh, Balraj Madhok, from Jansangh for Comrade Vajpayee.In Emergency, Indira Gandhi gets orders from Moscow to release our man Vajpayee, Vajpayee is released in 10 days. Russia makes Vajpayee Prime Minister, and Indira Gandhi was an obstacle in his way, he gets her brutally murdered.