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It was a sudden expansion of the Vajpai cabinet. The swearing in of Jaswant Singh, Pramod Mahajan and Jagmohan would have been a routine political development. Had it not come so soon after the BJP election debacle in the states of Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh? Commentators had attributed infighting within the BJP. Senior BJP leaders had gone on record to blame each other for the election defeat. Now the question being asked was whether by inducting three loyalist. The prime minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpai was reasserting his pre-eminent position within his government and his own party. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high q