New Delhi: Apart from being an exceptional politician, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an exceptional orator and a writer. He was the first non-Congress prime minister who was elected nine times in Lok Sabha and twice in Rajya Sabha.
Vajpayee was born in Gwalior on December 25, 1924. Vajpayee love his national language and he is the first politician to deliver a speech in Hindi at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) IN 1977, as India’s external affair minister. Earlier, Vajpayee’s birthday was declared as Good Governance Day by the government.
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Friday remembered Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 97th birth anniversary. Taking to twitter he wrote, “आदरणीय अटल जी को उनकी जयंती पर कोटि-कोटि नमन। Remembering Atal Ji on his Jayanti. We are inspired by his rich service to the nation. He devoted his life towards making India strong and developed. His development initiatives positively impacted millions of Indians.”
आदरणीय अटल जी को उनकी जयंती पर कोटि-कोटि नमन।
Remembering Atal Ji on his Jayanti. We are inspired by his rich service to the nation. He devoted his life towards making India strong and developed.
His development initiatives positively impacted millions of Indians.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 25, 2021
Celebrating his birthday, let us take a look at some inspiring quotes by Atal Bihari Vajpayee:
- If India is not a secular nation, then India is not India at all
- It is easy to win elections by raising slogan of “garibi hatao” but slogans do not remove poverty.
- We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars…If we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty and backwardness
- You can change friends but not neighbours
- Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing
- I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them
- India is not a piece of land but a living entity
- Victory and defeat are a part of life which are to be viewed with equanimity
- Hard work never brings tiredness, it brings satisfaction
- No guns but only brotherhood can solve the problems
- Sarkarein aayengi, jayengi; partiyan banengi bigadengi Magar ye desh rehna chaiye
