Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected as Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao.
However, due to lack of an overall majority, he resigned after just 13 days and was replaced by United Front leader Deve Gowda.
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