Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian politician who was the 10th Prime Minister of India, first term for 13 days in 1996 and then from 1998 to 2004. A Padma-Vibhushan awardee, he was the first head of government from outside the Congress party to serve a full five-year term from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The leader has also received the highest honour, Bharat Ratna in 2015 and his birthday was declared 'Good Governance Day'. Other than his political views, Vajpayee is well praised for his poetry.
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Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi today welcomed the Centre's decision to confer Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and demanded that the honour also be conferred on Dravidian veteran E V Ramasamy,
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today greeted former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 90th birthday and said there is no bigger tribute to him than celebrating it as 'Good Governance Day'.Modi visited
New Delhi: On 'Good Governance Day', Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said efforts are being made for ‘re-engineering' of government processes as part of the promise to provide an ‘open and accountable administration'.He said his
New Delhi: In the six decades he was in electoral politics, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, awarded the Bharat Ratna on Wednesday, catapulted from one who lost one election after another to a colossus who eventually became
Mumbai: The Hindi film fraterntity Wednesday lauded the Bharat Ratna being conferred on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and late freedom fighter-educationist Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. While melody queen Lata Mangeshkar called them 'gems
New Delhi: Rashtrapati Bhawan has announced that India's highest civilian honour ‘Bharat Ratna' will be conferred on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. More than a decade ago, Vajpayee was interviewed by India TV Editor-in-chief Rajat
New Delhi: BJP veteran L K Advani today became emotional as he hailed the announcement of Bharat Ratna for Atal Bihari Vajpayee with whom he has shared over five decades of close relationship.Describing Vajpayee as
New Delhi: Following is the list of Bharat Ratna winners:Atal Bihari Vajpayee - Announced today, yet to be conferredPandit Madan Mohan Malviya- Announced today, yet to be conferredREAD MORE: Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee
New Delhi: To mark the 'Good Governance Day' tomorrow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi where he will attend a number of programmes on the occasion of the birthday
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the conferment of Bharat Ratna on Madan Mohan Malviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a "fitting recognition" of the services of the "illustrious stalwarts" to the nation."Bharat
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today welcomed the Centre's decision to confer ‘Bharat Ratna' on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.“I welcome the decision. We all love and respect Vajpayeeji,” Banerjee, who served
New Delhi: Rashtrapati Bhavan has announced the union government's decision to confer Bharat Ratna to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. Interestingly, both Malaviya and Vajpayee share a common date of
New Delhi: A 28-year-old dhoti-kurta clad young man was jostling to push his blanket-wrapped baggage into the unreserved compartment of a passenger train at Delhi Railway station on May 8, 1953.It was a send off
Patna: His acrimony for BJP notwithstanding, JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today supported the demand for Bharat Ratna for the saffron party's tallest leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee.“Vajpayee jee should have been bestowed with Bharat Ratna during
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked BJP MPs to highlight the government's “successful performance” in Parliament and explain to people the bills passed in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha despite disruption by opposition
New Delhi: Shiv Sena members in Lok Sabha yesterday sought rolling out of Uniform Civil Code, abrogation of Article 370 and construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya as a ‘birthday gift' to former Prime Minister
Jammu: Amid speculation that Atal Bihari Vajpayee may be bestowed with Bharat Ratna, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the UPA government should have conferred the country's highest civilian honour on the
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani has backed awarding the Bharat Ratna to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and said he regarded it as "significant" that the Narendra Modi government has decided to
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L K Advani today did not rule out return of an era of coalition politics in India, saying this was possibile in a country as "diverse and variegated" as it.Advani
Chennai: Slamming the Centre for its proposal to hold various events on December 25 as a part of 'Good Governance Day', DMK today called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to ensure that NDA should
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