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About Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996. He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a volunteer and full-time functionary (pracharak) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary volunteer organisation. Vajpayee combined cultural nationalism with political moderation, shaping a distinctive strand of post-Independence Indian conservatism rooted in civilisational identity. Vajpayee represented a current in Hindu nationalism that sought to harmonise cultural identity with democratic pluralism.
Everything about Atal Bihari Vajpayee →- Occupation
- politician, poet, journalist, writer
- Position held
- Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister of India, member of Rajya Sabha, Minister of External Affairs
- Citizenship
- British Raj, Dominion of India, India
- Born
- December 24, 1924
- Died
- August 16, 2018