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Just another day for Vajpayee on Pokhran anniversary

Ten years ago on this day he stunned the world by announcing that India has conducted a nuclear test in the desert of Rajasthan and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rode the nationalist euphoria to win the general election that followed. But Sunday, on the tenth anniversary of the Pokhran blasts, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had no special observance to mark the historic day2:00 PM on May 11