Nationality: Indian
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Died At Age: 93
Born In: Gwalior
Famous As: Former Prime Minister Of India
Height: 1.68 M
Political Ideology: Bharatiya Janata Party (1980–Present)
Father: Krishna Bihari Vajpayee
Mother: Krishna Devi
Siblings: Prem
Religion: Hinduism
Place Of Death: New Delhi
Founder/Co-Founder: Jana Sangh
Net Worth: $2 Million As Of Jan 15, 2017
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a highly respected
veteran politician who had served as the Prime Minister of India in three non-consecutive terms. He was a member of the Indian Parliament for almost five decades; in fact he was the only parliamentarian who had been elected from four different states at different times, namely, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi. He made his foray into politics during the pre-independence era when he took part in the Quit India Movement which led to his arrest and imprisonment. A true patriot, he was one of the founding members of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh, an Indian nationalist party. A multi-faceted personality, he was a very skilled poet with several published poems. Also well known is his love for his native language Hindi—he was the first person to deliver a speech in Hindi at the U.N. General assembly. He was very famous for his oratory skills and held several prestigious positions in Indian politics before being elected the Prime minister. His first stint as the Prime Minister of India lasted for just 13 days. He was again sworn in for the second time after a couple of years. This time too, his government lasted for just over a year. His third stint as the Prime Minister was his most successful one and he served a full term of five years in this position.
Childhood & Early Life
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born into a middle-class family in Gwalior. His father was Krishna Bihari
- Vajpayee, a school teacher and poet, and his mother was Krishna Devi.
- He attended the Saraswati Shishu Mandir and later went to Victoria College from where he
- graduated with distinction in Hindi, English and Sanskrit.
- He enrolled at DAV College, Kanpur to complete his post graduation and earned his M.A. in
- Political science.
- He was a patriot at heart and participated in India’s struggle for freedom even as a
- student and edited several nationalist Hindi newspapers.
Political Career
- He became associated with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), a right-wing political party founded
- by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951. He became a loyal follower of Mookerjee and supported
- him during his fast-unto-death in Kashmir in 1954.
- Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from Balrampur (U.P.) in 1957.
- He proved himself to be an excellent orator and gave powerful speeches.
- He was made the national president of the Jana Sangh in 1968 after the death of
- Deendayal Upadhyaya. Over the next few years he worked tirelessly with Nanaji
- Deshmukh, Balraj Madhok and Lal Krishna Advani to make the Jana Sangh a prominent presence
- in Indian politics.
- In 1977, the BJS was united with the Bharatiya Lok Dal and the Socialist
- Party to form the Janata Party. After the victory of the Janata Party in the general elections,
- Vajpayee became the Minister of External Affairs in Prime Minister Morarji Desai’s government.
- The Janata Party was dissolved following Morarji Desai’s resignation as Prime Minister in 1979.
- Vajpayee, in collaboration with Lal Krishna Advani and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat formed the
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980 and became the party’s first president.
- After the 1984 elections, when BJP was reduced to two seats, Vajpayee worked tirelessly to
- build the party and in the next parliamentary elections in 1989 BJP won 88 seats.
- By 1991, BJP had emerged as the principal opposition party and the party won 120 seats in
- 1991 parliamentary elections.
- He became the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament in 1993 and in November 1995 at a
- BJP conference in Mumbai, he was declared as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP.
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