Reports said a few months before the upcoming local elections that the BJP's fortunes appeared bleak in the Western part of the state, an area engulfed by the farmers' agitation. BJP leaders were facing the wrat
s first president. He contested the 1984 Lok Sabha elections as a BJP candidate from Gwalior but lost. In 1991 he was elected to the Lok Sabha as a member of the BJP. The following year he was one of the few Hindu leaders tocondemnthe destruction of theBabri MasjidinAyodhyaby right-...