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#12 Life of a Leader, Statesman and Prime Minister.


Hey Infinities, in this article you will get to know about the life history of one of the greatest Leader, Statesman and Prime Minister of India 'Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee'. Infinity is providing you with the foremost grasp about him in this article.

This young man one day will become the country's prime minister," Jawaharlal Nehru said of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1957, while introducing him to a foreign dignitary. The prediction would come true at the turn of the century when the BJP stalwart served three terms as premier.


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. Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee in a Hindu Brahmin family on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior.

His activism started with Arya Kumar Sabha of Gwalior, the youth wing of the Arya Samaj, of which he became the general secretary in 1944. He also joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a swayamsevak, or volunteer, in 1939. Influenced by Babasaheb Apte, he attended the Officers Training Camp of the RSS during 1940–44 and became a pracharak, RSS terminology for a full-time worker, in 1947.

Veteran Parliamentarian
Vajpayee first became a member of the Lok Sabha in 1957, just a decade after India won independence. At the time, he was in his early thirties. He would win elections to the lower House of Parliament nine more times in the next seven decades. He would also serve terms in the Rajya Sabha. In 1994, he won the Best Parliamentarian Award.


As a Prime Minister
Vajpayee served three terms as prime minister. His first stint in office came in May 1996, and lasted less than two weeks; the speech in which he announced in Parliament that he would resign still ranks among his finest. The second term was also brief - it came in 1998-99. But the third was a full term: 1999 to 2004.
In fact, Vajpayee became the first prime minister who wasn't from the Congress, or didn't have a Congress background (like Morarji Desai), to complete five years in office.

Eminent Speaker & Writer
Vajpayee's oratory skill was the stuff of legend; it caused Lal Krishna Advani to feel (by his own admission) an "inferiority complex". His mastery of language was also evident in his prolific writing; he penned collections of poems such as Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundalian and Amar Aag Hai. Many of his written works are published in the school & collages books also.

In 2015, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.


Honours
  • In 2012, Vajpayee was ranked number 9 in Outlook India's poll of The Greatest Indian.
  • In August 2018, Naya Raipur was renamed as Atal Nagar.
  • In October 2018, four Himalayan peaks near Gangotri glacier named after his name.
Awards
  • 1992 - Padma Vibhushan
  • 1993 - D. Lit. from Kanpur University
  • 1994 - Lokmanya Tilak Award
  • 1994 - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award
  • 1994 - Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Vallabh              Pant Award
  • 2015 - 'Bharat Ratna'
  • 2015 - Bangladesh Liberation War Honour             (Bangladesh Muktijuddho Sanmanona)

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