Mr.Atal Bihari Vajpayee the 10th (13 days) and the prime minister of India before manmohan Singh(199

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 25 December 1924) was the 10 and 12th prime minister of India,he served 6 years, 64 days when he was elected for the second time as the prime minister.A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he is the first Prime Minister from outside the Indian National Congress party to serve a full five-year term. At age 92, Vajpayee is currently the oldest living former India Prime Minister.

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 Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, until 2009, when he retired from active politics due to health concerns. Vajpayee was one among the founder members of erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which he had also headed. He was also the Minister of External Affairs in the cabinet of Morarji Desai. When Janata government collapsed, Vajpayee restarted the Jana Sangh as the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980. On 25 December 2014 the office of President of India announced the Bharat Ratna award, India's highest civilian honour, to Vajpayee. In a special gesture, the President of India conferred Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his residence on 27 March 2015.

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior. His grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee, had migrated to Morena, Gwalior from his ancestral village of Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, was a poet and a schoolmaster in his hometown. Vajpayee studied from the Government Higher secondary school, Gorkhi, Bara, Gwalior. Vajpayee attended Gwalior's Victoria College (now Laxmi Bai College) and graduated with distinction in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. He completed his post-graduation with an M.A. in Political Science from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College, Kanpur, and was awarded a first-class degree.

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 HimachalPradesh. Vajpayee has said about his poetry, "My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the despirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory".

FAMILY BACKGROUND

He wasn't married,he has an adopted daughter named Namita.He has three brothers and three sisters.(NAMES OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS ARE MENTIONED BELOW)

Father-Krishna bihari vajpayee

Mother- Krishna devi

Brothers-Prem Bihari Vajpayee,Avadh Bihari Vajpayee,Suda Bihari Vajpayee

Sisters-Vimala Mishra,Urmila Mishra,Kamala Devi \

Daughter-Namita(ADOPTED)

Grand father-Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND BEFORE POLITICS

1. He attended the Saraswati Shishu Mandir and later went to Victoria College from where he graduated with distinction in Hindi, English and Sanskrit.

2. He enrolled at DAV College, Kanpur to complete his post graduation and earned his M.A. in Political science.

3. 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 JOURNEY

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. By 1991, BJP had emerged as the principal opposition party and the party won 120 seats in 1991 parliamentary elections.

8. 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.

BOOKS WRITTEN BY VAJPAYEE

• Atal Bihari Vaj mem tina dasaka. (1992).

• Pradhanamantri Atala Bihari Vajapeyi, chune hue bhashana. (2000).

• Values, vision & verses of Vajpayee: India's man of destiny. (2001).

• India's foreign policy: New dimensions. (1977).

• Assam problem: Repression no solution. (1981)

POETRY

1. Twenty-One Poems. (2003).

2. Kya khoya kya paya:

3. vyaktitva aura kavitaem (Hindi Edition). (1999).

4. Meri Ikyaavan Kavitayein. (1995).

5. Meri ikyavana kavitaem (Hindi Edition). (1995).

6. Shreshtha kavita. (1997).

7. Nayi Disha – an album with Jagjit Singh (1999)

8. Samvedna – an album with Jagjit Singh (2002)

POSITIONS HELD BY VAJPAYEE

• 1951 – Founder-Member, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S)

• 1957 – Elected to 2nd Lok Sabha ( 1st term )

• 1957–77 – Leader, Bharatiya Jana Sangh Parliamentary Party

• 1962 – Member, Rajya Sabha

• 1966-67- Chairman, Committee on Government Assurances

• 1967 – Re-elected to 4th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

• 1967–70 – Chairman, Public Accounts Committee

• 1968–73 – President, B.J.S.

• 1971 – Re-elected to 5th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

• 1977 – Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (4th term)

• 1977–79 – Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs

• 1977–80 – Founder- Member, Janata Party

• 1980 – Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (5th term)

• 1980-86- President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.)

• 1980-84, 1986 and 1993–96 – Leader, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party

• 1986 – Member, Rajya Sabha; Member, General Purposes Committee

• 1988–90 – Member, House Committee; Member, Business Advisory Committee 1990-91- Chairman, Committee on Petitions

• 1991– Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (6th term)

• 1991–93 – Chairman, Public Accounts Committee

• 1993–96 – Chairman, Committee on External Affairs; Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha

• 1996 – Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (7th term)

• 16 May 1996 – 31 May 1996 – Prime Minister of India

• 1996–97 – Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha

• 1997–98 – Chairman, Committee on External Affairs

• 1998 – Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (8th term)

• 1998–99 – Prime Minister of India; Minister of External Affairs; and also in charge of Ministries/Department not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister

• 1999 – Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (9th term)

• 13 Oct.1999 to 13 May 2004– Prime Minister of India and also in charge of the Ministries/Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister

• 2004 – Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (10th term)

AWARDS RECEIVED

1. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award in India in 1992 for his distinguished contribution in public affairs.

2. He was honored with Best Parliamentarian Award in 1994.

3. In 2014, he was honoured with Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the Republic of India.