India News: Describing him as his role model, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the last of three-day BJP conclave on Sunday said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the only non-Congress Prime Minister of India who led the nation on the path of progress.

The Chief Minister said that it was under Vajpayee's leadership that India had conducted nuclear tests on May 11 and May 13, 1998 despite international pressure and stood up to the sanctions imposed against it thereafter.