Member of Parliament
12th Lok Sabha [BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY - LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH)]

Father's Name :Shri Krishna Bihari Vajpayee

Date of Birth :25 December 1924

Place of Birth: Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)

Marital Status :Unmarried (Adopted Two Children)

Educational Qualifications :M.A. (Political Science) Educated at Victoria (now Laxmibai) College, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) and D.A.V. College, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)

Profession :Journalist and Social Worker

Permanent Address :A-302, Laplaz, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) Tel. (0522) 220909

Present Address :3, Race Course Road, New Delhi-110001 Tel. (011) 3018939

• 1951 Founder-Member, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S)

• 1957 Elected to 2nd Lok Sabha

• 1957-77 Leader, Bharatiya Jana Sangh Parliamentary Party

• 1962 Member, Rajya Sabha

• 1966-67 Chairman, Committee on Government Assurances

• 1967 Re-elected to 4th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

• 1967-70 Chairman, Public Accounts Committee

• 1968-73 President, B.J.S.

• 1971 Re-elected to 5th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

• 1977 Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (4th term)

• 1977-79 Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs

• 1977-80 Founder- Member, Janata Party

• 1980 Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (5th term)

• 1980-86 President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.)

• 1980-84, Leader, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party 1986 and 1993-96

• 1986 Member, Rajya Sabha Member, General Purposes Committee

• 1988-90 Member, House Committee Member, Business Advisory Committee

• 1990-91 Chairman, Committee on Petitions

• 1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (6th term)

• 1991-93 Chairman, Public Accounts Committee

• 1993-96 Chairman, Committee on External Affairs Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha

• 1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (7th term)

• 16 May 1996- Prime Minister of India; Minister of External 31 May 1996 Affairs and also incharge of Ministries/Departments of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Coal, Commerce, Communications, Environment and Forests, Food Processing Industries, Human Resource Development, Labour, Mines, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Planning and Programme Implementation, Power, Railways, Rural Areas and Employment, Science and Technology, Steel, Surface Transport, Textiles, Water Resources,Atomic Energy, Electronics, Jammu & Kashmir Affairs, Ocean Development, Space and other subjects not allocated to any other Cabinet Minister

• 1996-97 Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha

• 1997-98 Chairman, Committee on External Affairs

• 1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (8th term)

• 19 March 1998 Prime Minister of India; Minister of External onwards Affairs; and also incharge of Ministries/Department not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister

Lok Sabha Mein Atalji (a collection of speeches); Mrityu Ya Hatya, Amar Balidan, Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundalian (a collection of poems written in jail during Emergency); New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy (a collection of speeches delivered as External Affairs Minister during 1977-79); Jana Sangh Aur Musalman; Three Decades in Parliament (Speeches in three volumes); Amar Aag Hai(a collection of poems) 1994; Meri Ekyavan Kavitayen; Four Decades in Parliament (English)-4 Volumes of Speeches in Parliament, 1957-95

Editor, (i)Rashtra-Dharma-monthly (ii)Panchajanya-weekly; Swadesh and Veer Arjun, both dailies

Member, National Integration Council since 1961; President (i) All India Station Masters and Assistant Station Masters Association, 1965-70; (ii) Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Samarak Samiti, 1968-84; (iii) Deendayal Dham, Farah, Mathura, U.P.; and (iv) Janmabhoomi Smarak Samiti, 1969 onwards

International affairs; uplift of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; and woman and child welfare

Reading, writing, travelling and cooking

Widely travelled; Member, (i)Parliamentary Goodwill Mission to East Africa, 1965;(ii)Parliamentary Delegation to Australia, 1967; European Parliament, 1983; Canada, 1987;(iii) Indian Delegation to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meetings held in Canada, 1966 and 1994, Zambia 1980, Isle of Man 1984; (iv)Indian Delegation to Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Japan, 1974; Sri Lanka, 1975; Switzerland, 1984; (v) Indian Delegation to the UN - General Assembly, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996; and (vi) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Bulgaria, 1997; Leader, Indian Delegation to Human Rights Commission Meeting, Geneva, 1993; and Delegation of Standing Committees of External Affairs to Gulf countries- Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait

Participated in Freedom Struggle and went to jail in 1942; detained during Emergency in 1975-77; was awarded Padma Vibhushan by President of India in recognition of his services to the Nation; Conferred, (i)Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by Kanpur University,1993; (ii) Lok Manya Tilak Puruskar, 1994; (iii) Bharat Ratna Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant Award for Best Parliamentarian, 1994