Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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10th Prime Minister of India
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Place of Birth: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Hindustani pronunciation: [???l b?ha??i? ?a?d?pai]; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician, statesman and a poet who served three terms as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, and finally, for a full term from 1999 to 2004.
- A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 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 a member of the Indian Parliament for over five decades, having been 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 until 2009 when he retired from active politics due to health concerns.
- Vajpayee was among the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), of which he was the president from 1968 to 1972.
- The BJS merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party, which won the 1977 general election.
- Vajpayee became the Minister of External Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
- He resigned in 1979, and the Janata alliance collapsed soon after.
- The erstwhile members of the BJS formed the BJP in 1980, with Vajpayee as its first president. During his tenure as prime minister, India carried out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998.
- Vajpayee sought to improve diplomatic relations with Pakistan, travelling to Lahore by bus to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
- After the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan, he sought to restore relations through engaging with President Pervez Musharraf, inviting him to India for a summit at Agra. He was conferred India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee in 2015.
- The administration of Narendra Modi declared in 2014 that Vajpayee's birthday, 25 December, would be marked as Good Governance Day.
- He died on 16 August 2018 due to an age-related illness.
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