The Author: ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (December 25,1924), Prime Minister has been imbued with a nationalistic spirit from his childhood. He took part in the Quit India Movement and was imprisoned. He obtained his MA degree in Political Science from DAV College, Kanpur. He began his career as Editor of Hindi Rashtra Dharma, weekly Panchjanya, later daily Veer Arjun and Swadesh. Founder member of Bharatiya Jana Sangh he was its President in 1967-77. After incarceration in Emergency (1975-77) he was a co-founder of the Janata Party and served as External Affairs Minister in Janata Government. In 1980, he founded the Bharatiya Janata Party and was its President during 1980-86. He has been a Member of Parliament almost uninterruptedly since 1957, he was Leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and BJP Parliamentary Parties during 1957-77, 1980-84 and 1986-91. He became Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha in 1993. He has served on several parliamentary committees as Chairman or member with distinction, and has also been member of several Indian Parliamentary Delegations going abroad. In 1994, he led the Indian Delegation to the UN Conference on Human Rights. He was conferred Padma Vibhushan by the President and honoured by the Prime Minister’ The Best parliamentarian of 1994.’ He became the Prime Minister in 1996, second time in 1998 and again in 1999. He is a poet and a scholar and has several publications to his credit.



Dr. N.M. Ghatate (Editor) is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court. He is at present member of the Law Commission of India. He did his PhD in International Relations from the American University, Washington D. C. He has written number of research articles on Constitutional Law and international relations. Books to his credit are: Indo-Soviet Treaty: Reactions and Reflections; Bangladesh: Crisis and Consequences; Revoke Emergency and Four Decades in Parliament (Ed.).

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