ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE: THE MAN WHO GAVE RISE TO NEW INDIA

ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE: THE MAN WHO GAVE RISE TO NEW INDIA

 

ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE(25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was a politician & poet. He was the 10^th prime minister of India. He served as the prime minister of India for three terms, first for a  period of thirteen days in 1996, then for 13 months from 1998 to 1999, and finally for the full tenure of 5 years from 1999 to 2004. He formed a political party named BHARTIYA JANATA PARTY on 6 April 1980 with Bhairon singh shekhawat & Lal krishna advani. He did his studies from Maharani Laxmi Bai Govt. College of Excellence. He wrote books such as Meri Ekyavan kavitayen , Twenty One Poems, Decisive Days, Chuni Hui Kavitayen ,Five- Decades in  Parliament , Sankalp-Kaal, A Constructive Parliamentariar, etc. He belonged to a middle-class family. His father Krishna Bihari Vajpayee was a teacher in his home town.

In 1942 He participated in QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT and was arrested with his brother. He was a member of parliament for over four decades.

ACHIEVEMENTS BY ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE

 1. BHARAT RATN (2015)

2. PADMA VIBHUSHAN (1992)

He was elected for two Lok Sabha (lower house) for ten times and two times to the Rajya Sabha .he was one of the founder of Bharatiya Jan Sangh. He served as its president from 1968 to 1972. He became the Minister of External Affairs in the cabinet in tenure of former Prime Minister MR. Morarji Desai.

Vajpayee as the prime minister of India

First-term(May 1996):- In 1995 during  BJP’s conference in Mumbai , president of BJP lal Krishna advani  declared that Vajpayee would be the face of the prime minister of BJP for the general election. BJP was the single largest party in those days; they won the election and Vajpayee sworn as the 10^th prime minister. But BJP was not able to prove their majority among the members of Lok sabha hence Vajpayee had to resign as they did not get enough support to form the government.

Second-term(1998-1999):- when the two united front government fell between 1996 and 1998 the Lok sabha was collapsed and the general election was held again. In 1998, in the general elections, BJP was the largest party, several parties came with BJP to form NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (NDA) and then again Vajpayee was sworn as the Prime Minister. The government lasted for 13 months.

The famous incident in second term

The Nuclear tests:- In May 1998 the Indian government conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran (desert in Rajasthan ). It  took 24 years to conduct this test again after the first nuclear test in 1974 and for the first time India was declared as an atomic power nation.

Third-term – (1999-2004):- The general elections of 1999 were held after the Kargil war and the National Democratic Alliance led by BJP got 303 seats out of  543 seats in the lower house (Lok sabha) and got majority and Vajpayee sworn as the prime minister of India for the third time.

Famous incidents in his third term

The highjack and risky decision:- In  December 1999  an Indian airline’s flight from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked and they took it to Tiban, and they demanded to free terrorists like Masood Azhar from prison .the bajpayee government took a brave and risky decision, they sent Jaswant singh, the minister of external affairs of the current government and exchanged them for the passengers.

2001  attack on parliament-  On 13 December 2001 a group of masked and armed men with real IDs attacked on parliament house in Delhi. The terrorist managed to kill some security guards, but the parliament house building was sealed fastly and security forces killed the men when they were proven the citizens of Pakistan. The Vajpayee government brought prevention of terrorism act. It was aimed to slow down the effect of terror attacks by strengthening the powers of government authorities to investigate and act against the suspects.