'Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity'. This quote was given by Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and it was his last. On 16 August, Indian a lost a true leader, a very good politician and a very kind and genial person who was Sir. Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was the first to held nuclear tests and put India into the race of nuclear powered countries. He was a member of parliament for five decades and held many coalition government together during his tenure. He was the PM of India from 1999 to 2004 and it was the first time that any non-congress party came into power. Congress had been ruling India since Independence from British but the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee end that. He conducted five nuclear tests in Pokhran and shocked the world. These tests made him and his party famous. The BJP became the single-largest party in the elections in 1996 and 1998 but did not win in enough voting districts to form a majority in the lower house of Parliament. But later due to the charisma of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP won the elections of 1999 and formed the government with majority. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born in the central Indian city of Gwalior on Dec. 25, 1924. His father was a schoolteacher and Hindu scholar. As a teenager, he was drawn to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a controversial group that was banned briefly after a former member assassinated the Indian independence-movement leader Mohandas Gandhi in 1948. After graduating from Victoria college from Gwalior, he earned a political science degree from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic college in Kanpur. In 1951, he joined the newly formed Bhartiya Jana Sangh, the older version of BJP and soon become the party leader. With all of this written, I pray for his soul to rest in peace
