Lucknow. The Yogi government will celebrate the birth centenary of former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee with great pomp. Under this, various programs will be organized from 19 to 25 December. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the centenary celebrations organized jointly by the Culture and Higher Education Department at the Sangeet Natak Academy today.
During the centenary celebrations, State Archivist and Director of State Lalit Kala Academy, Dr Shraddha Shukla said that various aspects of Atal Ji’s life will be shown in the exhibition. The winners will be felicitated on the occasion of the closing ceremony on 25th December. Before this, on the eve of Atal Ji’s birthday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will offer flowers to his statue located in Lok Bhavan.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Life History
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born in Gwalior on 25 December 1924. Atal Bihari is counted among the most popular Prime Ministers of India. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister of India thrice. He became PM for 13 days from 16 May 1996 to 1 June 1996. After this, he became Prime Minister for the second time from 19 March 1998 to 13 October 1999. He returned again in the Lok Sabha elections held in the year 1999 and remained the Prime Minister of India from 13 October to 22 May 2004.
Vajpayee was the first non-congress PM to serve a full term in the office. He was among the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
In 2014, the Narendra Modi government declared Vajpayee’s birthday – December 25 – as the Good Governance Day. In 2015, he received the highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, from the then president of India, Pranab Mukherjee. He passed away in 2018 due to an age-related illness.
Alat Bihari Vajpayee, one of the prominent political leaders of the country and founding member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took his last breath on August 16, 2018, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after a prolonged illness.
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