| Name(s) |
ATAL BIHARI
VAJPAYEE |
| Date of
Birth |
December 25, 1924
- Born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
|
Identity |
Indian Politician
and Statesman and 10th Prime Minister of India; also a Hindi
Poet. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1992: He was honoured with
Padma Vibhushan Award.
- 1994: He was honoured with
the Lokmanya Tilak Award, Best Parliamentarian Award and
Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Vallabh Pant Award
- May 16, 1996: Became the
Prime Minister of India, for the first time.
- June 01, 1996:
Retired as Prime MInister of India.
- March 19, 1998: Became the
Prime Minister of India, for the second time.
- October 13, 1999: On this day,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee took oath as Prime Minister of India
for the third time, after the mid-term elections.
- May 22, 2004: Retired
as Prime MInister of India.
- March 26, 1977: Became
Minister of External Affairs of India in Morarji Desai Govt.
- October 04, 1977: He (the then
External Affairs Minister of India) became the first man to
address the UN General Assembly in Hindi language.
- July 28, 1979:
Retired as Minister of External Affairs of India in Morarji
Desai Govt.
- June 29, 2002: On this day, he
dedicated his collection of poems translated in Tamil.
- July 26, 2012: On this day,
designated as 'Kargil Vijay Diwas', BJP President Nitin
Gadkari unveiled a wax statue of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in
Mumbai. The statue is to be put up at a wax museum in
Lonavala.
- July 01, 2013: The UPA
Government on this day accepted before Supreme Court that
National Democratic Alliance Government led by Vajpayee has
developed half the roads in last 32 years in their 5-year
term.
- December 24, 2014: He was
honoured with the BHARAT RATNA Award on
this day.
- 2015: He received the
Liberation War award (Bangladesh Muktijuddho Sanmanona).
- March 27, 2015:
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee conferred upon him the
BHARAT RATNA Award at Vajpayee's residence
as the latter was under poor health.
- December 25: His birthday
anniversary is observed as "Good Governance Day".
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Other Events &
Developments |
- At first instance, he was the Prime Minister just for
thirteen days in 1996.
- At the second instance, he was the Prime Minister for
the full term from 1998 to 2004.
- He was a leader of the centre-right Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP).
- He was the first Prime Minister from outside the Indian
National Congress party to serve a full five-year term.
- He has been parliamentarian for over four decades. He
was elected to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's
Parliament) nine times.
- He was elected twice to the Rajya Sabha (upper house).
- In 2009 he retired from active politics due to health
concerns.
- He was one amongst the founder members of erstwhile
Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which he had also headed.
- He was also the Minister of External Affairs in the
cabinet of Morarji Desai.
- When Janata government collapsed, Vajpayee restarted the
Jana Sangh as the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980.
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