AB Vajpayee wanted to induct Kalam as minister in NDA government:
Former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee wanted to induct APJ Abdul Kalam as a minister in the NDA government in 1998, an offer Kalam declined, four years before he became the President in 2002.
Vijay Bahuguna, the Congress MP from Tehri Garhwal, was Tuesday sworn in as chief minister of Uttarakhand after the Congress leadership overruled dissent by chief ministerial aspirant Harish Rawat, who is learnt to have offered to resign from the union council of ministers.