Good Governance Day: All you need to know about Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Good Governance Day 2020: All you need to know about Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Good Governance Day is observed in India annually on the twenty-fifth day of December, the birth anniversary of former-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

♦Personal Details

• Born-25 December 1924, Gwalior
• Died-16 August 2018 (aged 93)
• Bharat Ratna-2015
• Padma Vibhushan-1992
• Political party Bharatiya Janata Party

♦Politics Career

• 10th Prime Minister of India– 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996
• Prime Minister of India -19 March 1998 – 22 May 2004
• Minister of External Affairs– 26 March 1977 – 28 July 1979 (PM-Morarji Desai)
• MP– 1991–2009
• Founding members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS)
• The BJS merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party, which won the 1977 general election.
• Former members of the BJS formed the BJP in 1980, with Vajpayee its first president.

ALSO READ:  Rashtriya Kisan Diwas: All you need to know about Choudhary Charan Singh

♦Achievement

• India carried out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998
• Travelling to Lahore by bus to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
• Won 1999 Kargil War

Note: Good Governance Day was established in 2014

Click here to Buy RRB PO Mains 2020-21 Test Series

IBPS PO MAINS 2020 Online Test Series

• Click here to Join Telegram Group
• Click here to Join Whatsapp Group