Atal Bihari Vajpayee Biography

 Who is Atal Bihari Vajpayee?

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was a three-time Prime Minister of India. He was the Prime Minister of India first from 16 May to 1 June 1996, again in 1998, and again from 19 March 1999 to 22 May 2004. He was a Hindi poet, journalist, and prolific speaker. He was the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh. was one of them, and was also its President from 1968 to 1973. For a long time, he also edited many magazines filled with a national spirit like Rashtradharma, Panchjanya (letter), and Veer Arjuna.


He was a member of the Indian Parliament for four decades, having been elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house, ten times, and twice to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house. He served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh until 2009 when he retired from active politics due to health concerns. Vajpayee was the first Prime Minister of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, he started his life as a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with the resolve to remain unmarried, he completed 5 years without any problem as a non-Congress Prime Minister. He is also called Bhishma Pitamah because of his vow to remain unmarried for life. He formed the government with a coalition of 24 parties, which had 81 ministers.


He had retired from politics in 2005 and lived in the government residence at 6-A Krishna Menon Marg in New Delhi.  Shri Vajpayee died on 16 August 2018 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi after a prolonged illness. . He remained active in Indian politics throughout his life.

The early life of Atal Bihari Vajpayee


Pandit Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, a native of Bateshwar, the ancient place of Agra district in Uttar Pradesh, was a teacher in the Gwalior princely state of Madhya Pradesh. At the same time, Atal Ji was born to his co-religionist Krishna Vajpayee at Brahmamuhurta on 25 December 1924  in Shinde's cantonment. Father Krishna Bihari Vajpayee used to do teaching work in Gwalior, apart from this he was also a master poet of Hindi and Braj languages. The qualities of poetry were acquired in the son through hereditary tradition. The direction of Atal Ji's life changed after reading the immortal work "Vijay Pataka" composed by Mahatma Ramchandra Veer. Atal Ji's B.A. education took place in Gwalior's Victoria College (currently Laxmibai College). From student life, he became a volunteer of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and since then he continued to participate in national-level debate competitions.


He passed the first-class examination for MA in Political Science from DAV College, Kanpur. By giving him a break in the middle, he engaged in the work of the Sangh with full devotion. Under the guidance of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, not only read the lessons on politics but also did the work of editing magazines like Panchjanya, Rashtradharma, Dainik Swadesh, and Veer Arjun efficiently. 


In 2015, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna for his contribution and extraordinary work for all-around development.

Personal life of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Vajpayee remained unmarried throughout his life. He accepted longtime friend Rajkumari Kaul and BN Kaul's daughter Namita Bhattacharya as his adopted daughter. Rajkumari Kaul died in the year 2014. Namita and her husband Ranjan Bhattacharya lived with Atal Ji. He was a famous poet writing in Hindi. His published works include Kaidi Kavirai Kundaliyan, a collection of poems imprisoned during the 1975–77 Emergency, and Amar Aag Hai. In relation to his poem, he wrote, "My poem is a declaration of war, not an exile for the loser. It is not the drumbeat of the defeated soldier's despair, but the victory of the war warrior. It is not a wish for despair but victory. Shout out.

The political life of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

He was one of the founders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and served as its national president from 1968 to 1973. In 1952, he contested the Lok Sabha elections for the first time but did not get success. But he did not lose his courage and in 1957 he won the Lok Sabha from Balrampur (District Gonda, Uttar Pradesh) as a Jana Sangh candidate. From 1957 to 1977, until the establishment of the Janata Party, he was the leader of the Parliamentary Party of the Jana Sangh for twenty consecutive years. He was the foreign minister in Morarji Desai's government from 1977 to 1979 and made India's image abroad.


In 1980, dissatisfied with the Janata Party, he left the Janata Party and helped in the establishment of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The responsibility of the post of President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, formed on 6 April 1980, was also entrusted to Vajpayee. He was also elected to the Rajya Sabha twice. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the vigilant watchdog of democracy, took over the reins of the country in 1996 as the Prime Minister. On 19 April 1998, again took oath as the Prime Minister and under his leadership, the coalition government of 13 parties touched many dimensions of progress in the country in five years.


In the Lok Sabha elections held in the scorching heat before the completion of the term in 2004, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) contested under the leadership of Vajpayee and Bharat Uday (in English). India Shining) slogan. No party got a majority in this election. Presently he had retired from politics and lives in the government residence at 6-A Krishna Menon Marg in New Delhi.

Tenure as prime minister

Initiatives to improve relations with Pakistan

On 19 February 1999, The bus service started from Delhi to Lahore on 19 February 1999 with the name of  Sada-e-Sarhad. Inaugurating this service, Vajpayee Ji visited Pakistan as the first passenger and met Nawaz Sharif which marked a new beginning in mutual relations.

Golden Quadrilateral Project


The Golden Quadrilateral Project (Golden Quadrilateral Project or GQ Project for short) was started to connect the four corners of India by road. Name of the four corners are  Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, and Mumbai were linked by highways. It is believed that the number of roads constructed in India during the reign of Atal Ji was done only during the time of Sher Shah Suri.

Death of Atal Bihari Vajpayee


Atal Bihari Vajpayee suffered a heart attack in 2009, after which he was unable to speak. He was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on 11 June 2018 due to a kidney infection and some other health problems. where he died on 16 August 2018 at 05:05 PM. A formal statement from AIIMS issued on his death said:

"Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee breathed his last at 05:05 PM on 16th August 2018. His health had deteriorated significantly in the last 36 hours. We tried our best but today he could not be saved." He was cremated the next day on 17th August according to the Hindu culture system. His adopted daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya offered him a fire. His mausoleum is built at the memorial site in Shanti Van near Rajghat. His last journey was carried out in a grand manner. Hundreds of leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the destination on foot. A seven-day state mourning was announced across India on Vajpayee's death. Atal Ji's ashes were immersed in all the major rivers of the country.

Some important facts of life

  • Remained unmarried for life.

  • He has also been a brilliant and eloquent speaker (orator) and a proven Hindi poet.

  • Without getting distracted by the possible displeasure of nuclear-armed countries, he also took courageous steps for the security of the country by conducting Agni-II and nuclear tests.

  • In 1998, India's second nuclear test was conducted in Pokhran, Rajasthan, which did not allow the CIA of America to even notice.

  • Atal Ji has been the longest-serving MP and also the longest non-Congress Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. He was the first Prime Minister who not only gave stability to the coalition government but also successfully operated it.


Major compositions of Atal ji


  • Rag Rag Hindu My Introduction

  •  Death or murder

  •  Amar Sacrifice (collection of Atal Ji's statements in Lok Sabha)

  •  Prisoner Kaviray's horoscopes

  •  Three decades in parliament

  • Immortal Fire

  • Some articles: some speeches

  •  Secular cause

  • The slippery roads of politics

  •  Point to point idea, etc.

  •  My fifty-one poems




By Moni Sinhmar

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