If his popularity helped him win Parliamentary elections 12 times in India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's oratory _ passionate in words and sincere in message _ endeared him to people in Pakistan as well.
So much so that after a powerful appeal for peace by Vajpayee in a speech during a historic visit to Lahore in 1999, then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif quipped: "Vajpayee ji ab to aap Pakistan me bhi election jeet sakte hain" (Vajpayee ji now you can win elections in Pakistan also)
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During Atal-ji's first visit to the Kashmir Valley he again touched the chord with the people when he declared that "we want peace in the Valley, we want to resolve all your problems in the spirit of "Jamhuriyat, Insaniyat and Kashmiriyat."
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