This ppt includes all basic info. of Atl Bihare Vajpayee.

1. ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE- A REAL
INDIAN HERO

2. INTRODUCTION
 Father’s Name: Shri Krishna Bihari Vajpayee
 Mother’s Name: Shri Krishna Devi Vajpayee
 Date Of Birth: 25th December 1924
 Place OF Birth: Gwalior(Madhya Pradesh)
 Belongs To: Middle Class Brahmin
Family

3. EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
 He done is schooling from Saraswati Shishu
Mandir Gorkhi, Bara, Gwalior.
 He attended Gwalior's Victoria College and
graduated with distinction in Hindi, English
and Sanskit.
 He completed his post-graduation with an
M.A. in Political Science from Dayanand
Anglo-Vedic College, Kanpur, and was
awarded a first-class degree

4. EARLY POLITICAL CARREAR
 Vajpayee's first exposure to politics was in August
1942, when he and his elder brother Prem were
arrested for 23 days during the Quit
India movement.
 In 1951, he was seconded by the RSS, along with
Deendayal Upadhyaya, to work for the newly
formed Bharatiya Jana Sang.
 In 1954, Vajpayee was with Mookerjee when he
went on a fast-unto-death in Kashmir to protest
against perceived inferior treatment of non-Kashmiri
Indian visitors to the state.

5.  Mookherjee died in prison during this strike.
 After that Vajpayee was elected as Lok
Sabha Member(lower house of India’s
Parliament).
 There, his oratorical skills so impressed
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that he
predicted that Vajpayee would someday
become India's Prime Minister.

6. POLITICAL CAREER(1975-95)
 From 1975 to 1977, Vajpayee was arrested
along with several other opposition leaders
during the Internal Emergency imposed by
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian
National Congress party.
 Following Janata's victory in the 1977
general elections, he became the Minister of
External Affairs in Prime Minister Morarji
Desai's cabinet

7.  The Janata Party was dissolved soon after
Morarji Desai resigned as Prime Minister in
1979.
 Vajpayee joined many of his Bharatiya Jana
Sangh and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh
colleagues, particularly his long-time friends
L. K. Advani and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat,
to form the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in
1980.
 He became the BJP's first President.

8. AS PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
* First Term(May 1966):
 In the 1996 general elections, the BJP
emerged as the single largest party in the
Lok Sabha.
 Then president Shankar Dayal
Sharma invited Vajpayee to form the
government.
 Vajpayee was sworn in as the 10th Prime
Minister of India.

9. • Second Term(1998-99):
• The 1998 general elections again put the
BJP ahead of others.
• This time, a cohesive bloc of political
parties joined the BJP to form the National
Democratic Alliance (NDA), and Vajpayee
was sworn in as the Prime Minister.
• During this time 3 major things were
happened they are:-
 NUCLEAR TEST.
 KARGIL WAR.
 THE LAHORE SUMMIT.

10. • Third Term(1999-04):
• In the 1999 general elections, the BJP-led
NDA won 303 seats out of the 543 seats in
the Lok Sabha, in the aftermath of the Kargil
operations,thereby securing a comfortable
and stable majority.
• On 13 October 1999, Atal Bihari Vajpayee
took oath as Prime Minister of India for the
third time.
• During this time also some major activities
were happened,they are:-
 INDIAN AIRLINE HIJACK.
 NATTIONAL HIGHWAY PROJECT &
ECONMIC REFORMS.
 2001 ATTACK ON PARLIAMENT.

11. 2004 GENERAL ELECTION
 The NDA was widely expected to retain
power after the 2004 general election.
 The BJP hoped to capitalise on the slogan
"India Shining" and released many ads
touting the economic growth of the nation.
 However, the coalition lost almost half its
seats, with several prominent cabinet
ministers being defeated.

12.  The Indian National Congress, led
by Sonia Gandhi, became the single
largest party and, along with many minor
parties, formed the United Progressive
Alliance.
 Then the UPA formed a government
under Dr. Manmohan Singh.
 Vajpayee resigned as Prime Minister & not
to take up the position of the Leader of the
Opposition.

13. TRAVEL AND DIPLOMATIC ASSIGNMENTS
 Vajpayee has visited several countries, first
in 1965 as a member of the Parliamentary
Goodwill Mission to East Africa.
 He had led the Indian Delegation to the
Human Rights Commission Meeting at
Geneva in 1993.
 He had also led Delegation of Standing
Committees of External Affairs to Gulf
countries i.e. Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait.

14. LATER CARRER
 In December 2005, Vajpayee announced his
retirement from active politics, declaring that
he would not contest in the next general
election.
 Vajpayee announced that "Henceforth, Lal
Krishna Advani and Pramod Mahajan will be
the Ram-Laxman (the two godly brothers
much revered and worshipped by Hindus) of
the BJP.
 Vajpayee was referred to as the Bhishma
Pitamah of Indian Politics by Prime

15. PERSONAL LIFE & INTEREST
 Vajpayee has an adopted daughter,
Namita.
 He is fond of Indian music and dance.
 He loves nature and one of his favourite
retreats is Manali in Himachal Pradesh.
 He is fond of making poetrty & some of
them are very famous too.

16. AWARDS
 1992, Padma Vibhushan
 1993, D. Lit. from Kanpur University
 1994, Lokmanya Tilak Award
 1994, Best Parliamentarian Award
 1994, Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Vallabh
Pant Award
 2015, Bharat Ratna

17. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PRESENTATION

18. GROUP MEMBERS
 Siddharth Agrawal.
 Madhur Agrawal.
 Mrunal Shah.
 Yash Kokra.
 Ayush Asija.