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Who was Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

About Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Who was Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born on December 25, 1924, in Gwalior. He studied at the Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Gwalior before doing BA in Hindi, English and Sanskrit from the city’s Victoria College and post-graduation in Political Science from DAV College, Kanpur. An orator par excellence, he was lauded as a statesman politician who would go far beyond his party’s core political agenda for the larger good.
 
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's political journey
 
Vajpayee began his political career as a freedom fighter, his first brush with politics being as part of the Quit India movement of 1942. As a student,
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Updated On : 16 Aug 2022 | 12:43 PM IST

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