All About Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee, one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Party (BJP), was the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India to serve a full term in office.

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Vajpayee was known for his skillful oratory and his poetic disposition.

When we speak of Vajpayee, it is important to note that he still holds great appeal among the young and older generations alike. The youth of this country sees Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the only Prime Minister in recent years that had the courage and conviction to lead the country in difficult times.

Former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s past – speech at International Youth Conference on Terrorism

Where he had addressed the youth and said,

“I am pleased to be with you this morning. I have attended many conferences in which the issue of terrorism is discussed. But today I am particularly happy. For it is the first conference that I have attended which is for the youth and by the youth.

It is natural for young people to take such a two-pronged approach. Young hearts have an instinctive attraction to high ideals of peace, voluntary service, and adventurous pursuit of progress. At the same time, their minds have an inborn abhorrence for the wrong and the unjust.

Youth is the spring of life. It is the age of discovery and dreams.

When they dream, they dream not only for a good future for themselves, but also a good future for their Nation and the entire humanity.

Patriotism comes naturally to young people. But they also easily respond to the call of internationalism.

The threat to peace-loving societies from the globalisation of terror is an ugly reality of today’s world. We in India grasped this reality many years ago. We have lost more than 60,000 of our innocent men, women and children, and security personnel to cross-border terrorism in Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of our country during the past two decades.

This is not because Islam justifies terrorism. No it does not justify. No religion preaches hatred or sanctions killing of innocent human beings.

Even while demanding restraint and fairness from our police and security agencies, we should recognize that extraordinary circumstances call for effective responses. The human rights of terrorists cannot override those of their victims, not only those hit by their actions, but also the generations which are denied normal life and economic progress by the prevalence of terrorism.

I call upon youth organisations to create proper awareness about these imperatives.

My young friends, distinctions are sometimes drawn between different acts of terrorism. In some cases, we are told, it is not really terrorism, but a freedom struggle. This is how our neighbour has been trying to justify its policy of cross-border terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir.

Some countries have a tendency to condone terrorism somewhere, while condemning it elsewhere. This is counter-productive, because such lenience will boomerang on all of us.

Youth organisations should carry out an awareness campaign to expose justification or condoning of terrorism anywhere and under whatever pretext.”

What are few facts about Atal Bihari Vajpayee?

• Atalji has made us ‘Indian’ proud and at the same time safe in May 1998, he conducted the Shakti series of nuclear tests at Pokhran and declared India to be a nuclear weapon state.
  
• Atalji and his elder brother participated in the Quit India Movement, and were even imprisoned for a period of 23 days.
  
• Nehru had even predicted that one day Atalji would become the Prime Minister of India.
  
• Atalji became the Prime Minister of India not once or twice but thrice.
• Atalji resigned from the post after 13 days. In 1996 ,when BJP emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha General Elections.
• Atalji won his first election to Parliament in 1957.
• Ataliji was elected to the Rajya Sabha 2 times and to the Lok Sabha 10 times. That’s why he is also known as “Bhishma Pitamah of Indian Politics”.
• Atalji was in opposition for four decades.
• Ataliji was elected Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Only parliamentarian to have been elected from four different states altogether.
• Atalji was the first Prime Minister of India and the first External Affairs Minister of India who had delivered speech in Hindi at the United Nations.
  
• Atalji was the first head of government from outside the Congress party to serve a full five-year term. (Currently, Mr. Modi is heading to be second)
• Atalji had been the editor of two monthlies—Rashtradharma and Panchjanya.
• Atalji has been the editor of two news dailies—Swadesh and Veer Arjun.
• Atalji is one of the best contemporary poets of our country. His one of the poetry is “Meri Ekyavan Kavitayen”.