Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee in History
Atal Bihari Vajpayee BR (pronunciation [Atal Bihari Vajpayee]; 25 December 1924, 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the Prime Minister of India: First for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999 to 2004.
A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he was the first Indian prime minister who was not a member of the Indian National Congress party to have served a full five-year term in office.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
He was a member of the Indian Parliament for over our decades, having been 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 Luckow, Uttar Pradesh until 2009 when he retired from active politics due to health concerns. 
Vajpayee was among the founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), of which he was the president from 1968 to 1972. The BJS merged with several other parties to form the Janata Dal., 
which won the 1977 general election. 
During his tenure as prime minister, India carried out the Pokhran-2
nuclear tests in 1998. Vajpayee sought to improve diplomatic relations with Pakistan, traveling to Lahore by bus to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Musharraf, inviting him to India for a summit at Agra.

Early life and education
Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior.
His grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee, had migrated to Morena, Gwalior from his ancestral village of Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh.
His father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, was a school teacher in his hometown. Vajpayee did his schooling at the Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Gwalior. He subsequently attended Gwalior's Victoria College and graduated with distinction in Hindi, English, and Sanskrit.
Terms as Prime Minister (1996-2004)
First term: May 1996
During a BJP conference in Mumbai in Movember that Vajpayee would be the party's Prime Ministerial candidate in the announcement, responding by saying that the party needed to win the election first. The BJP became the single largest party in parliament in the 1996 general election, helped by religious polarization across the country as a result of the demolition to the Babri Masjid.

Second term: 1998-1999
After the fall of the two United Front governments between 1996 and 1998, the Lok Sabha was dissolved and fresh elections were held. The 1998 general elections again put the BJP ahead of others. This time, a cohesive bloc o political parties joined the BJP to form the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and Vajpayee was sworn in as the Prime Minister.