{"id":497002,"date":"2023-12-25T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T05:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=497002"},"modified":"2023-12-25T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T05:42:58","slug":"atal-bihari-vajpayee-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/atal-bihari-vajpayee-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Atal Bihari Vajpayee birthday: PM Modi pays tribute to former PM on his 99th birth anniversary, calls him a source of inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 99th birth&nbsp;anniversary of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute&nbsp;at the Sadaiv Atal&nbsp;memorial on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a renowned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former prime minister, was born on December 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of all the family members of the country, \u201cI pay my deepest respects to former Prime Minister respected Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji on his birth anniversary,\u201d\u00a0PM Modi wrote on X earlier in the day. Throughout his life, he never stopped working to expedite the nation-building process, PM Modi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays floral tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at &#39;Sadaiv Atal&#39; memorial, on his birth anniversary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BqpmVC6tie\">pic.twitter.com\/BqpmVC6tie<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1739133476895621221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His devotion and service to Mother India will remain a source of inspiration even in his immortal age, PM Modi continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that stable regimes may be advantageous, as Atal Bihari Vajpayee demonstrated when he was the nation&#8217;s prime minister, and that tradition is still upheld now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092a\u0942\u0930\u094d\u0935 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0927\u093e\u0928\u092e\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 \u0906\u0926\u0930\u0923\u0940\u092f \u0905\u091f\u0932 \u092c\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0935\u093e\u091c\u092a\u0947\u092f\u0940 \u091c\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u0909\u0928\u0915\u0940 \u091c\u092f\u0902\u0924\u0940 \u092a\u0930 \u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u092a\u0930\u093f\u0935\u093e\u0930\u091c\u0928\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0940 \u0913\u0930 \u0938\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0930\u093e \u0915\u094b\u091f\u093f-\u0915\u094b\u091f\u093f \u0928\u092e\u0928\u0964 \u0935\u0947 \u091c\u0940\u0935\u0928\u092a\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0902\u0924 \u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930 \u0928\u093f\u0930\u094d\u092e\u093e\u0923 \u0915\u094b \u0917\u0924\u093f \u0926\u0947\u0928\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091c\u0941\u091f\u0947 \u0930\u0939\u0947\u0964 \u092e\u093e\u0902 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u0909\u0928\u0915\u093e \u0938\u092e\u0930\u094d\u092a\u0923 \u0914\u0930 \u0938\u0947\u0935\u093e \u092d\u093e\u0935 \u0905\u092e\u0943\u0924\u0915\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092d\u0940 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0930\u0923\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0924 \u092c\u0928\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947\u0917\u093e\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfiKhMb27x\">pic.twitter.com\/RfiKhMb27x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1739120149938987121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CM Yogi also said, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Ajat Shatru&nbsp;of politics, with exceptional capacity to function in both favourable and difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renowned for his expressive oratory skills, Vajpayee was a prominent figure in Indian politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India&#8217;s prime minister for six years, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, guided the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power at the national level in the 1990s. In 1996, he held the position of Prime Minister of India for a mere 13 days, and from 1998 to 1999, he held it for 13 months. After that, he completed his five-year term in full from 1999 to 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his third term, Vajpayee accomplished a noteworthy feat of leading a stable government for the entire duration of its term, which was unprecedented for a non-Congress government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee got involved in politics through the Arya Samaj movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his third term, Vajpayee accomplished a noteworthy feat of leading a stable government for the entire duration of its term, which was unprecedented for a non-Congress government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":497005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[1822,161455,165],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/25110822\/ezgif-2-20e2afa98a-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497002"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=497002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->