ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE JOURNEY

Atal Bihari Vajpayee BR PV (pronunciation [əʈəl bɪhaːɾiː ʋaːdʒpai]; 25 December 1924[1] – 16 August 2018)[2] was an Indian politician who thrice served as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, for a period of eleven months from 1998 to 1999, and then for a full term from 1999 to 2004.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
BR PV
Atal Bihari Vajpayee 2002-06-12.jpg
Vajpayee in 2002
10th Prime Minister of India
In office
19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004
President
DeputyL. K. Advani
Preceded byI. K. Gujral
Succeeded byManmohan Singh
In office
16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996
PresidentShankar Dayal Sharma
Preceded byP. V. Narasimha Rao
Succeeded byH. D. Deve Gowda
Minister of External Affairs
In office
26 March 1977 – 28 July 1979
Prime MinisterMorarji Desai
Preceded byYashwantrao Chavan
Succeeded byShyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
Personal details
Born25 December 1924
Gwalior, Gwalior State, British India (now in Madhya Pradesh, India)
Died16 August 2018(aged 93)
New Delhi, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (1980–2018)
Other political
affiliations		Janata Party (1977–1980)
Bharatiya Jana Sangh(before 1977)
Alma materDAV College, Kanpur(then affiliated with University of Agra)
ProfessionWriter, politician, poet
AwardsBharat Ratna
2015
Padma Vibhushan
1992 
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He was a member of the Indian Parliament for over four decades, being elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house, ten times, and twice to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house. He served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh until 2009 when he retired from active politics due to health concerns. Vajpayee was among the founding members of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh which he also headed from 1968 to 1972. He was the Minister of External Affairsin the cabinet of Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
When the Janata government collapsed, Vajpayee restructured the Jana Sangh into the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980. He was the first Indian prime minister who was not a member of the Indian National Congress party to have served a full five-year term in office.
He was conferred India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by the President of India in 2015.[3] The Modi government declared in 2014 that Vajpayee's birthday, 25 December, would be marked as Good Governance Day.[4][5] He died on 16 August 2018 due to age related illness.[6]

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