Pramod Vyankatesh Mahajan was an Indian politician. He was one of the second generation leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Partyand, at the time of his death, was locked in a power struggle over who would take over the reins of the BJP when the current aging leadership retires. He belonged to a group of relatively young "technocrat" leaders who lack a grassroots political base, although he was fairly popular in his home state of Maharashtra in western India...
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