About Atal Bihari Vajpayee:-Atal Bihari Vajpayee(25th December,1924 to 16th August,2018) was an Indian
politician and diplomat 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,followed by a full term from
1999 to
2004.Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the
Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).He was a member of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,a
Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation.He was the first Indian prime minister not of the
Indian National Congress to serve a full term in office.He was also a renowned poet and a writer.
He was a member of the
Indian Parliament for over five decades,having been elected ten times to the
Lok Sabha,the lower house,and twice to the
Rajya Sabha,the upper house.He served as the
Member Of Parliament for
Lucknow,retiring from active politics in 2009 due to health concerns.He was among the founding members of the
Bharatiya Jana Sangh(BJS),of which he was president from 1968 to 1972.The BJS merged with several other parties to form the
Janata Party,which won the
1977 general election.In March 1977,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.Former members of the BJS formed the BJP in 1980,with Vajpayee 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 engagement with President
Pervez Musharraf,inviting him to India for a summit at
Agra.
Link To Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Wikipedia Page:-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atal_Bihari_VajpayeeAbout The Author:-Kingshuk Nag is an Indian author and editor with
The Times of India and a recipient of the Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year.
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