atal bihari vajpayee

Vajpayee was born into a Hindu Brahmin family on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation

National honours Bharat Ratna (2015) Padma Vibhushan (1992)

Vajpayee was arrested along with several other opposition leaders during the Internal Emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975

He was a member of the Indian Parliament for over five decades, having been elected ten times to the Lok Sabha, the lower house, and twice to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house

Vajpayee was officially declared dead there at 5:05 pm IST on 16 August 2018 at the age of 93