So long Vajpayee
By yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
India
August 17, 2018 1:40am CST
Three times Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died on evening of 16 August 2018 due to age related illness, he was 93 years old.
Vajpayee was elected to the Indian Parleament twelve times, among which 10 times was direct elected to lower house of the Parliament. He was the first Non-Congress party Prime Minister of Indian who served full term in office.
Mr Vajpayee was contemporary of DIsabled leader Girraj Saran Singh.
Vajpayee achaived many things and one of the great leaders who gave corruption free and working government to their country. He was rewarded Bharat Ratna (Highest Award of India) in 2015 by Narendra Modi government.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
17 Aug 18
Yesterday there was heavy traffic block in this area due the visit of PM and other political leaders in AIIMS where the former PM was on critical condition. Evening he passed away. He was too ill for the last many months and he escaped from all of his illness. He is a great human being indeed.
Wishing him Rest in Peace.
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@snowy22315 (180664)
• United States
21 Aug 18
RIP..I actually have not heard of the Indian prime minister since Indira Ghandi. We don't seem to hear much about them in this part of the world. We do hear a bit more about the Phillipines though.
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@ptrikha_2 (46947)
• India
3 Mar 19
A legendary leader, who was admired night only because of friends and foes alike.
Some of the development works that he started are still being in progress and helping in the growth of the nation.
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@vandana7 (100280)
• India
17 Aug 18
I wish he had not gone to the US to get his knee operated. Be Indian, buy Indian. If he can speak in Hindi at the UN, he should have given respect to our professionals at AIIMS. All those who use government funds, whether for treatment or security or stay for treatment abroad, cannot be called true nationalists.
@vandana7 (100280)
• India
17 Aug 18
@yugocean Sorry Kidney operation.
What is worrying is that the political discourse is degrading election after election. The times of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Rajiv Gandhi is no more. More than two and a half decades ago, Rajiv Gandhi the former Prime minister of India and the prominent
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
17 Aug 18
He was a great man and will always be missed
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