ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE- A REAL

INDIAN HERO

INTRODUCTION

Father’s Name: Shri Krishna Bihari Vajpayee

Mother’s Name: Shri Krishna Devi Vajpayee

Date Of Birth: 25th December 1924

Place OF Birth: Gwalior(Madhya Pradesh)

Belongs To: Middle Class Brahmin

Family

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

He done is schooling from Saraswati ShishuMandir Gorkhi, Bara, Gwalior.

He attended Gwalior's Victoria College and graduated with distinction in Hindi, English and Sanskit.

He completed his post-graduation with an M.A. in Political Science from DayanandAnglo-Vedic College, Kanpur, and was awarded a first-class degree

EARLY POLITICAL CARREAR

Vajpayee's first exposure to politics was in August 1942, when he and his elder brother Prem were arrested for 23 days during the Quit India movement.

In 1951, he was seconded by the RSS, along with Deendayal Upadhyaya, to work for the newly formed Bharatiya Jana Sang.

In 1954, Vajpayee was with Mookerjee when he went on a fast-unto-death in Kashmir to protest against perceived inferior treatment of non-Kashmiri Indian visitors to the state.

Mookherjee died in prison during this strike.

After that Vajpayee was elected as LokSabha Member(lower house of India’s Parliament).

There, his oratorical skills so impressed Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he predicted that Vajpayee would someday become India's Prime Minister.

POLITICAL CAREER(1975-95)

From 1975 to 1977, Vajpayee was arrested along with several other opposition leaders during the Internal Emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian National Congress party.

Following Janata's victory in the 1977 general elections, he became the Minister of External Affairs in Prime Minister MorarjiDesai's cabinet

The Janata Party was dissolved soon after Morarji Desai resigned as Prime Minister in 1979.

Vajpayee joined many of his Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sanghcolleagues, particularly his long-time friends L. K. Advani and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, to form the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980.

He became the BJP's first President.

AS PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

* First Term(May 1966):

In the 1996 general elections, the BJP

emerged as the single largest party in the

Lok Sabha.

Then president Shankar Dayal

Sharma invited Vajpayee to form the

government.

Vajpayee was sworn in as the 10th Prime

Minister of India.

• Second Term(1998-99):

• The 1998 general elections again put the BJP ahead of others.

• This time, a cohesive bloc of political parties joined the BJP to form the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and Vajpayee was sworn in as the Prime Minister.

• During this time 3 major things were happened they are:-

NUCLEAR TEST.

KARGIL WAR.

THE LAHORE SUMMIT.

• Third Term(1999-04):

• In the 1999 general elections, the BJP-led NDA won 303 seats out of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, in the aftermath of the Kargiloperations,thereby securing a comfortable and stable majority.

• On 13 October 1999, Atal Bihari Vajpayee took oath as Prime Minister of India for the third time.

• During this time also some major activities were happened,they are:-

INDIAN AIRLINE HIJACK.

NATTIONAL HIGHWAY PROJECT & ECONMIC REFORMS.

2001 ATTACK ON PARLIAMENT.

2004 GENERAL ELECTION

The NDA was widely expected to retain

power after the 2004 general election.

The BJP hoped to capitalise on the slogan

"India Shining" and released many ads

touting the economic growth of the nation.

However, the coalition lost almost half its

seats, with several prominent cabinet

ministers being defeated.

The Indian National Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi, became the single largest party and, along with many minor parties, formed the United Progressive Alliance.

Then the UPA formed a government under Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Vajpayee resigned as Prime Minister & not to take up the position of the Leader of the Opposition.

TRAVEL AND DIPLOMATIC ASSIGNMENTS

Vajpayee has visited several countries, first in 1965 as a member of the Parliamentary Goodwill Mission to East Africa.

He had led the Indian Delegation to the Human Rights Commission Meeting at Geneva in 1993.

He had also led Delegation of Standing Committees of External Affairs to Gulf countries i.e. Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait.

LATER CARRER

In December 2005, Vajpayee announced his retirement from active politics, declaring that he would not contest in the next general election.

Vajpayee announced that "Henceforth, LalKrishna Advani and Pramod Mahajan will be the Ram-Laxman (the two godly brothers much revered and worshipped by Hindus) of the BJP.

Vajpayee was referred to as the BhishmaPitamah of Indian Politics by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh during his

PERSONAL LIFE & INTEREST

Vajpayee has an adopted daughter,

Namita.

He is fond of Indian music and dance.

He loves nature and one of his favourite

retreats is Manali in Himachal Pradesh.

He is fond of making poetrty & some of

them are very famous too.

AWARDS

1992, Padma Vibhushan

1993, D. Lit. from Kanpur University

1994, Lokmanya Tilak Award

1994, Best Parliamentarian Award

1994, Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Vallabh

Pant Award

2015, Bharat Ratna

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PRESENTATION

GROUP MEMBERS

Siddharth Agrawal.

Madhur Agrawal.

Mrunal Shah.

Yash Kokra.

Ayush Asija.