Who Is Atal Bihari Vajpayee?
Shree Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a renowned personality in the history of Indian Politics. He was an Indian politician and a poet who served three terms as the 10th Prime Minister of India. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the BJP. He was also a member of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization.
Wiki/Overview
Full Name: | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Profession: | Poet, Statesman, Author, Politician |
Known For: | The 10th Prime Minister of India |
Date of Birth: | 19 March 1998 |
Date of Death: | 16 August 2018 |
Age (as of 2018): | 93 |
Place of Birth: | Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh |
Mother: | Krishna Devi |
Father: | Krishna Bihari Vajpayee |
Spouse: | He remained Bachelor entire life |
Organization: | Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Rashritrya Swayamsevak sangh |
Residence: | 6-A, Krishna Menon Marg, New Delhi- 110011 |
Education: | DAV College, Kanpur |
Alma Mater: | Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Gwalior. Gwalior’s Victoria College, Agra University (now Maharani Laxmi Bai Govt. College of Excellence) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Hindi, English, and Sanskrit. |
Hometown: | Gwalior |
Nationality: | Indian |
Religion: | Hinduism |
Height: | 5’6″ |
Weight: | N/A |
Zodiac Sign: | capricorn |
Early Life
Vajpayee was born into a Kanyakubja Brahmin family on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior. His father was a schoolteacher in their hometown. Later migrated to Morena near Gwalior from his ancestral village of Bateshwar in the Agra district of Uttar Pradesh. Unlike purist Brahmins who shun meat and alcohol, Vajpayee was known to be fond of whisky and meat. An activist at heart, he joined the youth wing of Arya Samaj called Arya Kumar Sabha and become its general secretary in 1944. He also participated in the Quit India Movement along with his brother Prem in 1942. He enrolled to study law but gave it up during the turmoil caused by the partition of India. He was then sent as a vistarak (probationary pracharak) to Uttar Pradesh where he was employed for various newspapers, including Rashtradharama, Panchjanya, Swadesh, and Veer Arjun.
Career Duration:
He was as the 10th prime minister of India in 1996, 1998 and from 1999–2004.
Career
Vajpayee began his formal political career when he started working for the newly formed political party, Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951. He was sent to Uttar Pradesh as a vistarak (a probationary pracharak) and soon began working for the newspapers of Deendayal Upadhyaya: Rashtradharma (a Hindi monthly), Panchjanya (a Hindi weekly), and the dailies Swadesh and Veer Arjun. In the 1957 Indian general election, Vajpayee contested elections to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. He lost to Raja Mahendra Pratap in Mathura but was elected from Balrampur. In the Lok Sabha his oratorial skills so impressed Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become the prime minister of India. During a BJP conference in Mumbai in November 1995, BJP President Advani declared that Vajpayee would be the party’s prime ministerial candidate in the forthcoming elections. The BJP became the single largest party in Parliament in the 1996 general election, helped by religious polarisation across the country because of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Vajpayee was sworn in as the 10th prime minister of India. He became the first president of the BJP. Over the course of next 16 years, Vajpayee along with other senior leaders of the party worked tirelessly to strengthen and expand the party. In the late 1980s, BJP also got involved in the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir movement. Upon his resignation as Prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee decided not to hold the position of the Opposition Leader. However, he remains the chairman of the NDA. In December 2005, he announced his retirement from active politics and announced that he would not contest in next general elections.
Education
Vajpayee did his schooling at the Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Gwalior. In 1934, he was admitted to the Anglo-Vernacular Middle (AVM) School in Barnagar, Ujjain district, after his father joined as headmaster. He subsequently attended Gwalior’s Victoria College, Agra University (now Maharani Laxmi Bai Govt. College of Excellence) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. He completed his post-graduation with a Master of Arts in political science from DAV College, Kanpur, Agra University.
Family & Affairs
He remained Bachelor in his life. He adopted and raised Namita Bhattacharya as his own child, the daughter of longtime friend Rajkumari Kaul and her husband B. N. Kaul. His adopted family lived with him. He was a noted poet, writing in Hindi. His published works include Kaidi Kaviraj Ki Kundalian, a collection of poems written during the 1975–1977 emergency, and Amar aag hai. Vajpayee had a stroke in 2009 which impaired his speech. His health had been a major source of concern; reports said he was reliant on a wheelchair and failed to recognise people. He also had dementia and long-term diabetes. On 11 June 2018, Vajpayee was admitted to AIIMS in critical condition following a kidney infection. He was officially declared dead there at 5:05 pm IST on 16 August 2018 at the age of 93. On 19 August, his ashes were immersed in Ganga River at Haridwar by Kaul.
Appearance
Atal Ji was handsome 5’6” (approx.) tall with an ambitious Black color eyes and Grey color Hairs.
Money Factor
Net Worth: | N/A |
Salary / Income: | N/A |
Achievements
He was the 10th Prime Minister of India; first serving a term for just 13 days before resigning in 1996, then for period of 11 months between 1998 and 1999, and finally for full term in 1999 up until 2004. He is the only non-Congress Prime Minister to have served a full term in office. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was presented with the prestigious Bharat Ratna Award by President Pranab Mukherjee, on March 27, 2015.
Trivia & Facts
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