ATAL BIHARI VAJPAY

Atal Bihari Vajpay

Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior. His father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, was a poet and a schoolmaster. Vajpayee studied from the Government Higher secondary school, Gorkhi, Bara, Gwalior. His activism started with Arya Kumar Sabha of Gwalior, the youth wing of the Arya Samj of which he became the General Secretary in 1944. He also joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak sangh 1939. Babasaheb Apte who is Influenced him, he attended the Officers Training Camp of the RSS during 1940-44 and became a "full-time worker" in 1947, technically a pracharak. Vajpayee never married and has remained a bachelor his entire life. Vajpayee's first exposure to politics was in August 1942, when he and his elder brother Prem were arrested for 23 days during the Quite India movement, when he was released only after giving a written undertaking, Quit India expressly declaring not to participate in any of the anti-British struggle. In 1951, he was seconded by the RSS, along with Deendayal Upadhyaya, to work for the newly formed Bharatiya Jana Sangh. a Hindu right-wing political party associated with the RSS. He was appointed as a national secretary of the party in charge of the Northern region, based in Delhi. 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. In 1977, heeding the call of social reformer  Jayaprakash Narayan for all the opposition parties to unite against the Congress, Vajpayee merged the Jana Sangh into the newly formed grand-alliance, the  Janatha Party.

Following Janata's victory in the 1977 General elections, he became the  Minister of External Affairs in Prime Minister. As foreign minister, that year Vajpayee became the first person to deliver a speech to the UN in Hindi. By the time the Janata government crumbled in 1979, Vajpayee had established himself as an experienced statesman and a respected political leader. The Janata Party was dissolved soon after Morarji Desai resigned as Prime Minister in 1979. The Jana Sangh had devoted its political organisation to sustain the coalition and was left exhausted by the internecine political wars within the Janata Party.Vajpayee joined many of his Bharatiya Jana Sangh and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh colleagues, particularly his long-time friends L. K. Advani and Bhairon singh shekhawat, to form the  Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) in 1980. He became the BJP's first President. He emerged as a strong critic of the  Congress (I) government that followed the Janatha Governament.

An Indian politician who was the 10th  Prime Minister of India , first for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A leader of the  (BJP), he is the first Prime Minister from outside the  Indian National Congress party to serve a full five-year term.

The BJP grew in strength in the early 1995 riding on pro-nationalistic sentiments. In the 1996 general election the BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha.    Vajpayee to form the government. Vajpayee was sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of India, but the BJP failed to muster enough support from other parties to obtain a majority. He resigned after 13 days, when it became clear that he could not garner a majority.The  1998 general elections again put the BJP ahead of others. This time, political parties joined the BJP to form the   National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and Vajpayee was sworn in as the Prime Minister.The NDA proved its majority in the parliament. The government lasted 13 months until mid-1999.  J.Jayalalitha withdrew its support to the government. The government lost the ensuing vote of confidence motion in the Lok Sabha by a single vote on 17 April 1999. , the Lok Sabha was again dissolved and fresh elections were held. Vajpayee remaining the Prime Minister until the elections were held.In May 1998, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in  Pokhran desert in  Rajasthan, 24 yrs after India conducted its first nuclear test  Pokhran in 1974.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 Kargil operations, 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.A parliamentarian for over four decades, Vajpayee was elected to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of  India’s Parliament ten times, and twice to the  Rajya Sabha (upper house). He also served as the t Member of Parliament for  Lucknow, Uttar Prasadesh until 2009, when he retired from active politics due to health concerns.

Is an Indian politician who was the 10th  Prime Minister, first for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A leader of the  Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), he is the first Prime Minister from outside the  IndianNational Congress  party to serve a full five-year term.