A Call to Honour.2 He recalled that just when the prime minister’s team had boarded the plane in Delhi to leave for Amritsar, from where the short drive to Wagah would begin, Vajpayee’s assistant remembered that he had left the prime minister’s hearing aid behind. A car had to speed from Race Course Road (the prime minister’s residence is still located on this road, which has now been renamed as Lok Kalyan Marg) to the airport with traffic police frantically clearing the route. Finally, the hearing aid was brought, enabling Vajpayee to hear out what his Pakistani counterpart had to say. Not
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