Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Vajpayee was born to Krishna Dev and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior. His grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lala Vajpayee, had migrated to Morena, Gwalior from his ancestral village for Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, was a poet and a schoolmaster in his hometown. Vajpayee did his schooling from the Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Gorkhi, Bara, Gwalior. Vajpayee attended Gwalior's Victoria College and graduated with distinction in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. He completed his post-graduation with an M.A in Political Science from DAV College, Kanpur and was awarded a first-class degree.His activism started with Arya kumar Sabha of Gwalior, the youth wing, of the Arya Samaj of which he became the general secretary in 1944. He also joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as a Swayamsevak in 1939. Influenced by Babasaheb Apte, He attended the Officers Training Camp of the RSS during 1940-44 and became a ''full-time worker'' in 1947, technically a pracharak. He gave up studying law due to the partition riots. He was sent as a vistarak to Uttar Pradesh and Quickly began working for the news paper of Deendayal Upadhaya, Rashtradharma, Panchjanya and the dailies Swadesh and Veer Arjun. Vajpayee never married and has remained a bachelor entire life.
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