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Personality Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Born: 25 December 1924, Died: 16 August 2018

He was an idea rather than a person. He was a
Bharat Ratna, whose shining light illuminated
the path to Atmanirbharta for four generations
of Indians. He was a poet who used to sing
songs of new India; he was a devotee; he
worshipped for a powerful India; he was the
banyan tree of India's social and political
ideology. He was Ajatashatru. He was the
Prime Minister; he was Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

n 1998, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee assumed the competitions.
post of Prime Minister, he resolved to establish He did his Master's in Political Science from DAV
"good governance," which was endangered by the College, Kanpur, and learnt basics of politics under the
I"governance" of the previous governments. In the tutelage of Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Pandit
spirit of "nation first," he also made the resolution Deendayal Upadhyay. Along with this, he also kept
meaningful by making national and public-interest on editing papers and magazines like Panchjanya,
decisions. Not only did Prime Minister Narendra Modi Rashtradharma, Dainik Swadesh, and Veer Arjun. He
declare Vajpayee's birthday, which is synonymous used to say that I have a vision of India: an India free
with "good governance," to be celebrated as "Good of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Governance Day," but he also adopted the mantras of MODI GOVT IS FULFILLING THE DREAMS OF ATAL
"minimum government" and "maximum governance.” BIHARI VAJPAYEE
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that good
governance is the key to the progress of any country. Golden Quadrilateral and Gramya Sadak Yojana
This country will always be grateful to Vajpayee for Atal Bihari Vajpayee envisioned connecting all of the
bringing good governance into the mainstream. country's villages with roads. For this, he launched the
Pandit Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, a native of Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana. These include
Bateshwar in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district, was a the Golden Quadrilateral and the Pradhan Mantri Gram
teacher in Madhya Pradesh's princely state of Gwalior. Sadak Yojana. The Golden Quadrilateral scheme built
On December 25, 1924, in Shinde's cantonment, his a highway network connecting Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi,
wife Krishna Vajpayee gave birth to their sixth child. and Mumbai. At the same time, the villages were linked
He was named Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Vajpayee did to cities via pucca roads under the Pradhan Mantri
his graduation from Victoria College (now Laxmibai Gram Sadak Yojana. On the fulfilment of his dreams,
College) in Gwalior. During his student years, he PM Modi said from the Red Fort: "When Atal Bihari
became a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteer Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, he took the road
and also continued to compete in national-level debate infrastructure to a different level, and today the country

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