2. 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
3. EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
He done is schooling from Saraswati Shishu
Mandir 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 Dayanand
Anglo-Vedic College, Kanpur, and was
awarded a first-class degree
4. 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.
5. Mookherjee died in prison during this strike.
After that Vajpayee was elected as Lok
Sabha 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.
6. 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 Morarji
Desai's cabinet
7. 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 Sangh
colleagues, 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.
8. 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.
9. • 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.
10. • 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 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.
• During this time also some major activities
were happened,they are:-
INDIAN AIRLINE HIJACK.
NATTIONAL HIGHWAY PROJECT &
ECONMIC REFORMS.
2001 ATTACK ON PARLIAMENT.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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, Lal
Krishna 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 Bhishma
Pitamah of Indian Politics by Prime
15. 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.
16. 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
