Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian politician who served three terms as Prime Minister of India, making him the only prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to serve consecutive terms. He was born in 1924 in Madhya Pradesh to a school teacher and grew up to be a poet and journalist. Vajpayee joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1939 and helped establish the Bharatiya Jana Sangh political party in 1951. As Prime Minister, he oversaw India's nuclear tests in 1998 and the Kargil War in 1999. Vajpayee was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in

1. Atal Bihari Vajpai

2. About
At the time of death, he was 93 years old.

3. Childhood And Education
• Atal Bihari was born on the 25th of Dec in 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya
Pradesh.
• He was born to Krishna Bihari Vajpayee and Krishna Devi in a Hindu
Brahmin family. And his father was a teacher and a good poet.
• Atal Bihari was also a good poet as well as a journalist too.
• After finishing his schooling from Saraswati Shisu Mandir and Anglo-
Vernacular Middle (AVM) School in Barnagar, Ujjain.
• Atal went on to attend Gwalior’s Victoria College where he completed his
BA in English, Sanskrit and Hindi.
• He was the first-ever foreign minister of India who used total Hindi
language in his speech in the UN General Assembly.
• He Was a very powerful speaker, people used to listen him every time.

4. Career
• Atal was an active member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,
initially joining as a volunteer or Swayamseval to rising to the ranks of
a ‘vistarak’ (a probationary full-time worker).
• Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a man of eloquent oratorical skills,
which he utilised for brilliantly defending the Sangh’s policies.
• He was initially appointed as the national secretary of the party and
was made in charge of the northern region, which was based in Delhi.

5. Continued….
• As a student, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a part of the Quit India
Movement of 1942.
• Later joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1939 as a
volunteer. By 1942, he had become an active member of the RSS.
• Vajpayee and his elder brother were also arrested for 24 days during
the Quit India Movement. In 1951.
• Vajpayee was chosen by the RSS to work for the then-newly formed
Hindu right-wing political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

7. History as prime minister
• Terms as Prime Minister of India
First Term: May 1996
Second Term: 1998 to 1999
Third Term: 1999 to 2004
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s history as the Prime Minister of India is also
quite remarkable. He served as the country’s Prime Minister for three
terms.
• The year 1996, he was sworn in as the 10th Prime Minister of India

8. Continued….
• His second term as a Prime Minister began after the 1998 general
elections that resulted in the formation of the National Democratic
Alliance.
• This Atal Bihari Vajpayee led government lasted for a total of 13
months
• The third and final term of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s lasted for the full 5-
year period starting from 1999 to 2004.
• Since Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the only
candidate to have become Prime Minister of India with 2 successive
mandates.

10. Contribution
• Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the only leader of India who got
respects from every oppositional party too
• As a Prime Minister, he had contributed a lot to the progress of the
country.
• As being a journalist he was the editor of two monthlies of that time
‘Rashtradharma’ & ‘Panchjanya’.
• The Prime Minister of India during the Kargil War was Atal Bihari
Vajpayee

11. Achievements And Organizations Foundation
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee was conferred with national honours:
1. Bharat Ratna (2015)
2. Padma Vibhushan (1992)
• Organizations founded:
1. Bharatiya Janata Party,
2. Bharatiya Jana Sangh, more