What are some awesome facts about Atal Bihari Vajpayee?

 

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born in Gwalior in the year 1924. Before joining the Active politics he was Private Assistant to Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. He wanted to be a journalist but ended up being a politician! Jawaharlal Nehru once said about Atalji that ‘ this boy will become PM one day'

1. 1939- Joined RSS at a very early Age of 15!
2. 1942- He was arrested during the Quit India movement for 22 days!
3. 1951- He joined BHARTIYA JAN SANGH (BJS)
4. 1953- Lost the first election! It was a bypoll he stood on the third position and the election was won by NEHRUs sister!
5. 1957- Won first LOK Sabha election from Balrampur constituency
6. 1962- He shifted himself from Lok Sabha to Rajya Sabha!
7. 1968- After the death of Sh Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay he was appointed as the President of BHARTIYA Jan Sangh
8. 1973- He reached Parliament in a bullock cart to protest against the increase in price of gas and petrol.
9. 1975- With lalkrishna Advani, George Fernandes even he was jailed during emergency.
10. 1977- He became the FOREIGN MINISTER in the Coalition government of Janta Party under the leadership of Morarji Desai
11. 1977- Taking the UN General Assembly by storm, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had addressed the Assembly in Hindi in 1977 for the first time in the history of India at a global forum.
12. 1980- There is a split in BJS and that's how BHARTIYA JANTA PARTY (BJP) was formed! He was the first President of BJP
13. 1996- He becomes the PRIME MINISTER of the country but government collapsed even after having a majority of 161 seats highest in the house!
14. 1998- He became PM fir the second time, Many important decisions related to Peace in the valley are taken! Also Pokran Nuclear Tests are conducted successfully. This test were criticized by Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi and the whole Left lobby. This NDA government could only last 13 months and the government lost majority by just one vote! All because AIADMK broke coalition.
15. 1999- Re-elections are held, Atalji is sworn in as the PM for the Third time!! During his tenure he started bus service from Delhi to Lahore. Won the Kargil War.
16. 2000- Launched Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojnaa
17. 2001- Launches the Sarva Shiksha abhiyan which brought the major reform in the education system. Had a knee replacement surgery
18. 2002- Completed Delhi metro project on time.
19. 2004- BJP lost the general elections, ABV Completes his full term of 5 year as a PM and becomes the first Non congressi PM To do so.
20. 2005- Retires from politics due to health issues.
21. 2009- suffers a stoke, due to which he was unable to speak much.
22. 2014- His 90th is been celebrated as a good Governance day by the newly formed Modi Government.
23. 2015- He is been awarded the Highest Honour of the country Bharat Ratna.
24. 2018- He was hospitalized for more than 9 weeks due to urinal infection and organ failures!

On 16th August 18 at 05.05Pm he left us at the age of 93!

Atal Ji reaching Parliament in a bullock cart, he was the first parliamentarian to reach parliament in a bullock cart.

With Indira Gandhi

Atalji with Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay ji

What are some of the awesome facts you believe very few people know?

 

• You have never been in the same physical space twice since the Earth, Solar system, and Galaxy are all moving through space.

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• Your shadow is a confirmation that light has travelled nearly 93 million miles unobstructed, only to be deprived of reaching the ground in the final few feet by you.

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• Giraffes have tongues about 21 inches long, which they also use to clean their ears.

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• The bullet proof vest was actually invented by a pizza delivery guy from Detroit, after he was shot twice on the job.

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• The I'm Feeling Lucky button apparently costs the company $110 million every year, because it would bypass all the ads to go to top searched site immediately.

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• All Las Vegas gambling casinos have no clocks or windows, as they don't want the people there to know if it's day or night outside.

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• Valentine's Day is one of the days with the highest suicide rates.
• According to psychologists, coloring is the best alternative to meditation. Coloring allows to unlock your creative potential. It also helps relieving tension and anxiety.

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• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.

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• Until the 1800's, dentures were often made from the teeth of dead soldiers.

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• When Michigan was a young territory, deer were so common and hunting such a part of life, that deer's skin or whole deer was used as money. A deer carcass was worth a dollar, and hence the dollar became known for what it was worth - “a buck”.

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What are some of the awesome facts you believe very few people know?

 Here are 10:

• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

• It actually takes 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.

• You’ll eat more than 35,000 cookies in your lifetime (probably).

• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

• If you fold a piece of paper in half 104 times would make it as thick as the observable universe (mathematically).

• The US Treasury once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.

• Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.

• The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.

• The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine.

• At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

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• 75 Super Obscure Facts That Everyone Will Think You’re A Hilarious Genius For Knowing
• 42 Incredibly Weird Facts You'll Want To Tell All Your Friends
• All images from Google

What are some of the awesome facts you believe very few people know?

 

• The shark from Jaws has a name; The production company named him “Bruce” after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer.

• Up to more than 6,000,000 Internet applications/websites have been blocked so far in China including Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Scribed, Chinese Wikipedia, Pornhub, Google, TIME, WhatsApp and Tumblr.

• The name of the blue bird used in the Twitter logo is Larry the Bird.

• Snails don’t have noses; rather they have four tentacles to perform sensory functions.

• Bird excrement is white poop because they don't produce urine. Instead, they excrete nitrogenous wastes in the form of uric acid, which emerges as a white paste.

• The Bible is both the world’s most sold and shoplifted book.

• Queen ants can live up to 30 years old.

• During his younger years, George W. Bush served as his high school’s head cheerleader.

• The female spotted hyena has the largest clitoris of all mammals.

• The word “feminism” was coined by a Frenchman named Charles Fourier.

• Google was originally called “BackRub”.

• Elmo is the only non-human to testify before Congress.

• Snow White is the first fictional female character to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is also the only Disney Princess to be given one.

What are some awesome pictures of Earth that will leave you speechless?

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These images are unreal. Check thhem out.

Chartreuse Arch, French Alps.

2. Atlantic-Norway Ocean Highway.

3. The Great Wall of China.

4. Highest mountains in the world - Himalayas. On the photo is Mardi Khola valley and beautiful Milky Way above it.

5. Île de Ré cross waves, France.

6. Niagra Falls, Canada.

7. Speedtrain in China.

8. The Corinth Canal (Greece) is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.

9. A Canadian Pacific Railway train moving through the avalanche debris in Glacier National Park (Canada) after the tracks have been cleared.

10. Banagil Cave, Algarve, Portugal.

11. Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, California. Every year, in the month of February, the sun's angle is such that it lights up the waterfall as if it were on fire.

12. Jann-Berghaus-Brücke in Leer/Germany. The ships which are built in the Meyer-Werft (Ship Yard) must be transferred from Papenburg down the river Ems to the North Sea. Every time a new cruise liner is ready built, this transfer is a great event in the area and thousands watch it along the journey to the north sea. See the video (that bridge at 2:20).

13. Mountain biking on Cliffs of Moher, Ireland.

14. As dawn breaks on top of a mountain near the China-Vietnam border, hundreds of water-filled rice terraces reveal themselves, clinging to the mountainside in geometric patterns in every direction. Light through the morning mist, reflecting off the water, brings some sense of mystery for the terraces. Photo and caption by Wu Hujun.

15. The Landwasser Viaduct is a single track six-arched curved limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser River between Schmitten and Filisur, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

16. World’s highest Tennis court: Andre Agassi and Roger Federer playing atop of Burj Al Arab helipad.

17. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE.

18. Border of Saudi Arabia and UAE.