Atal Bihari Vajpayee Wiki & Photos

Atal Bihari Vajpayee born 25 December 1924 is an Indian statesman, who served as the eleventh Prime Minister of India thrice- including brief first term of 13 days in 1996 and two terms from 1998 to 2004. After a brief stint as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from 19 March 1998 until 19 May 2004. 

A veteran Parliamentarian whose career stretches over four decades, Vajpayee has been elected to the Lok Sabha (en. House of the People) nine times and to the Rajya Sabha (en. House of the States) twice, a record by itself. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from Lucknow until 2009, and has since retired from active politics, possibly due to ill-health. 

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Shinde Ki Chhavani Gwalior of Central Province now Madhya Pradesh. His grand father Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee had migrated from his ancester's village Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh to Gwalior long back. 

His father Krishna Bihari Vajpayee was a poet and School Master at Gorakhi Vidyalaya Gwalior. Atal Bihari Vajpayee completed his graduation (B.A.) with the subjects Hindi, English and Sanskrit in first division from the Victoria College (now Laxmi Bai College) of Gwalior and got the Degree of Post Graduation (M.A.) in Political Science from the DAV College, Kanpur securing first class marks.

He also joined L.L.B. classes alongwith his father at D.A.V. College Kanpur but left the course in between the session and joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Since student life he was a patriotic poet, very good orator, dedicated journalist, who served Rashtradharma, Veer Arjun and Panchjanya (newspaper). So many books of his poetry and prose have been published. He has been to date the first and only bachelor Prime Minister of India.