The former prime minister passed away at 5.05pm, AIIMS stated in its press release.
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
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| 10th Prime Minister of India | |
| In office 19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004 |
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| President | K. R. Narayanan A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Deputy | L. K. Advani |
| Preceded by | I. K. Gujral |
| Succeeded by | Manmohan Singh |
| In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 |
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| President | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| Vice President | K. R. Narayanan |
| Preceded by | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| Succeeded by | H. D. Deve Gowda |
| Minister of External Affairs | |
| In office 26 March 1977 – 28 July 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Morarji Desai |
| Preceded by | Yashwantrao Chavan |
| Succeeded by | Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 December 1924 Gwalior, Gwalior State, British India (now in Madhya Pradesh, India) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (1980–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Janata Party (1977—1980) Bharatiya Jana Sangh (before 1977) |
| Alma mater | DAV College, Kanpur (then affiliated with University of Agra) |
| Profession | Writer, Politician, Poet |
| Awards | Bharat Ratna (2015) Padma Vibhushan (1992) |
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee ; born 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who thrice served as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, for a period of eleven months from 1998 to 1999, and then for a full term from 1999 to 2004.
He was a member of the Indian Parliament for over four decades, being elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house, ten times, and twice to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house. He served as the Member of Parliament for Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh until 2009 when he retired from active politics due to health concerns. Vajpayee was among the founding members of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh which he also headed from 1968 to 1972. He was the Minister of External Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
When the Janata government collapsed, Vajpayee restructured the Jana Sangh into the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1980. He was the first Indian prime minister not belonging to the Indian National Congress to serve a full five-year term. At age 93, Vajpayee is currently the oldest living former Indian Prime Minister.
He was conferred India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by the President of India in 2014. It was declared by the Modi government in 2014 that Vajpayee’s birthday, 25 December, would be marked as Good Governance Day
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Extremely sad to hear of the passing of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, our former Prime Minister and a true Indian statesman. His leadership, foresight, maturity and eloquence put him in a league of his own. Atalji, the Gentle Giant, will be missed by one and all #PresidentKovind