Former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee died on Thursday after being on life support since Wednesday night.
Vajpayee’s condition had sharply deteriorated in the last 24 hours. Vajpayee was 93 years old and was born on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Vajpayee was sworn-in as the 10th Prime Minister of India in 1996, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest party in 1996 general elections.
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- Vajpayee became the first non-Congress Prime Minister to have completed the full five-year term as India’s Prime Minister.
- The former prime minister had also participated in Indian freedom struggle. He was first arrested in 1942 during ‘Quit India Movement’.
- The former prime minister was responsible for the formation of Janata Party against the Congress in 1977. Vajpayee was the first person to deliver a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi. The three-time former PM along with L.K Advani and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat formed the BJP in 1980.
- During Vajpayee’s second term as a prime minister, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran desert in Rajasthan in May 1998. Kargil War was also fought during the reign. The former prime minister is not only an exemplary politician but also a great visionary and poet
- In December 2005, Vajpayee announced his retirement from active politics and handed over the reins of the party to Advani and Pramod Mahajan.
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