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RIP! Amazing Facts about Atal Ji, the Bhishma Pitamah of Indian Politics

Meenakshi Sharma
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the most beloved politician in India. He is widely respected as a statesman both within the country and abroad. His charismatic personality has a lot more other things worth knowing. Here are some interesting facts about him that you must be aware of.

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Atal Bihari was born in a humble school teacher’s family on December 25, 1924, in Gwalior Madhya Pradesh, Vajpayee entered politics during the Quit India movement in 1942. He did his graduation and post graduation in Political Science from Victoria College in Gwalior.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee has always been a bright student and was awarded first class Post Graduate Degree in Political Science.He and his father went to the same Law College (DAV College in Kanpur) together for their Law studies and they even shared the same room in the hostel.

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His first activism started with Arya Kumar Sabha in Gwalior.
His dream to become a journalist came true when he was sent to Uttar Pradesh to work for Deendayal Upadhyaya’s newspapers- Rashtradharma (a Hindi monthly), Panchjanya (a Hindi weekly) and the dailies Veer Arjun & Swadesh.
He became the Prime Minister for the first time on May 16, 1996 when then President Shankar Dayal Sharma invited BJP, which was the single largest party, to form the government.
On March 19, Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister for the second time.
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After 13 months, the Vajpayee government lost the vote of confidence by one vote on April 17, 1999. This is the only government at the Centre to have lost a confidence vote.
The Vajpayee-led NDA won 303 Lok Sabha seats in 1999 and he was sworn in as Prime Minister for the third time on October 13.
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He uplifted Hindi to the international platform by speaking in Hindi at the United Nations, he became the first person to speak in Hindi at the United Nations.
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Vajpayee did not have very cordial relations with Modi and had asked him to follow rajdharma in the wake of the Gujarat riots of 2002. He wanted Modi to quit as chief minister but the former survived as LK Advani backed him.
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