Atal Bihari Vajpayee: India has lost its ‘anmol ratna’, says PM Modi

Former Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister and BJP stalwart died Thursday at the National Indian Medical Academy. He is 93 years old. The prime minister's office announced his death from about 5:55 am. There, leaders of various factions began visiting Vajpayee in the morning. The symbolic BJP leader was elected AIIMS in June and has had problems for a long time.

After his health worsened, he withdrew from active public life in the last decade and was still trapped in his residence. Many leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited AIIMS patriarch BJP.

In March 2015, Vajpayee received the highest literary award in India, Balatratna. During the second phase as Prime Minister, Vajpayee ordered a nuclear test to fight Pakistan's nuclear ambition in May 1998. In February 1999 he continued to provide peace to Pakistan by using the first direct bus from India to Pakistan.

New Delhi: The NDA government led by Narendra Modi has been a symbolic leader of Bharat Ratna and a politician, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. On December 25, 2014, Rashtrapati Bhawan's communiqué ended several months of speculation, announcing that Bharat Ratna was former Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister. Vajpayee became Prime Minister of India with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and became the first non - parliamentary prime minister who finished his term. His long, winding political career is full of ups and downs and has been going on in public for more than 50 years.

Former Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister and BJP stalwart died Thursday at the National Indian Medical Academy. He is 93 years old. The prime minister's office announced his death from about 5:55 am. There, leaders of various factions began visiting Vajpayee in the morning. The symbolic BJP leader was elected AIIMS in June and has had problems for a long time. In March 2015, Vajpayee received the highest literary award in India, Balatratna. During the second phase as Prime Minister, Vajpayee ordered a nuclear test to fight Pakistan's nuclear ambition in May 1998. In February 1999 he continued to provide peace to Pakistan by using the first direct bus from India to Pakistan.