Atal

Bihari
Vajpaye
Purpose of my life: To play my part sincerely in every aspect of my life. And to see India take its place as a great nation
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 Personal
Profile
Father's Name Shri Krishna Bihari
Date of Birth Vajpayee 25 December
Place of Birth 1924
Marital Status Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)
Educational Qualification M.A.
Unmarried
(Political Science)
Educated at Victoria (now Laxmibai) College, Gwalior
D.A.V. College, Kanpur (Uttar
Profession Pradesh) Journalist and Social Worker
Permanent A-302, Laplaz, Lucknow (Uttar
Address Present Pradesh)
Address 6-A, Krishna Menon Marg, New Delhi-
110011
 Eleventh Prime Minister of India

 First for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004.

 A leader of the centre-right Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP),.
 first Prime Minister from outside the Indian
National Congress party to serve a full five-year
term.
 Elected to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's
Parliament) nine times

 Twice to the Rajya Sabha

 He also served as the Member of Parliament for
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, until 2009,
 Vajpayee was one amongst the founder
members of erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh
 Vajpayee restarted the Jana Sangh as the Bharatiya
Janata Party in 1980.
 As foreign minister, that year Vajpayee became the
first person to deliver a speech to the United Nations
General Assembly in Hindi.
 The BJP became the political voice of the Ram
Janmabhoomi Mandir Movement
 In May 1998, India conducted five
underground nuclear tests
in Pokhran desert in Rajasthan.
 24 yrs after India conducted its first nuclear
test Pokhran-I in 1974. This test is
called Pokhran-II.
 The tests were held just a month after
the government had been in power.
 In spite of the intense international criticism
and the steady decline in foreign
investment and trade, the nuclear tests
were popular domestically.
 In late 1998 and early 1999, Vajpayee began a push for
a full-scale diplomatic peace process with Pakistan.
 The historic inauguration of the Delhi-Lahore
bus service in February 1999,
  An armed conflict between India and Pakistan
took place between May and July 1999
 The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani
soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions
ऑपरशे न िविजय  In Operation Vijay, launched in June 1999, over
500 Indian soldiers were killed in the three-month
long Kargil War.
Kargil War  It is estimated around 600-4,000 Pakistani
militants and soldiers died as well.
 Almost 70% of the territory was recaptured by
India under Atalji’s prime ministerial period.
Vajpayee introduced many domestic
economic and infrastructural reforms,
including
 encouraging the private sector
and foreign investments

 reducing governmental waste

 encouraging research and development
and privatization of some government
owned corporations.
 Vajpayee's pet projects were the National
Highway Development Project and
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
Award
s •1992, Padma Vibhushan Award.

•1993, D.Lit from Kanpur University.

•1994, Lokmanya Tilak Award.

•1994, Best Parliamentarian Award.

•1994, Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Vallabh Pant Award.

•2014/24/12, Declared to be awarded with “BharatRatna”

 Wishing our
beloved former
prime minister,
much happiness
and health,
on his birthday,

being
celebrate
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