New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday paid floral tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his fifth death anniversary on the `Sadaiv Atal` memorial in Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, too, laid floral tributes on the memorial of the saffron stalwart, who was conferred with the nation`s highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna.
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday paid floral tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his fifth death anniversary on the `Sadaiv Atal` memorial in Delhi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, too, laid floral tributes on the memorial of the saffron stalwart, who was conferred with the nation`s highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna.
Significantly, the BJP, for the primary time, invited fellow partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to the occasion to pay tributes to the previous Prime Minister on the Sadaiv Atal Memorial.Among the accomplice leaders of the NDA on the occasion have been former Bihar chief minister Jeetan Ram Manjhi, Tamil Manila Congress chief GK Vasan, AIADMK`s Thambi Durai, Apna Dal chief Anupriya Patel, NCP leaders Praful Patel and Agatha Sangama, amongst others.
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, from the Nitish Kumar-led JDU, additionally paid floral tributes to the previous PM on his death anniversary.Also, considerably, Vajpayee`s foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya was additionally laid floral tributes on the memorial of the departed chief.To additional shore up and strengthen the NDA, with an eye fixed on subsequent 12 months`s Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has been holding political occasions, be it the assembly of the partners in the ruling alliance on the Centre earlier this 12 months or the one to mark the twenty fifth of the NDA authorities. The conferences are geared toward fostering unity among the many NDA partners and cultivating a constructive working relationship.On August 11, the BJP organised a workshop for NDA spokespersons.
“The objective of this workshop was to work collectively to ensure a strong performance in next year`s Lok Sabha elections,” a celebration supply instructed ANI.Earlier, PM Modi held a sequence of 11 conferences with NDA MPs from totally different states — on July 31 August 2,3,8, and 9 — throughout which he provided vital solutions and recommendation to the accomplice leaders forward of subsequent 12 months`s normal elections.One of the BJP`s tallest leaders, Vajpayee took all of the NDA partners alongside throughout his three phrases in the nation`s highest workplace and exemplified by means of his management the profitable administration of a coalition rule.
His visionary management and strategic acumen not solely formed the BJP`s picture throughout his prime ministerial tenure but in addition helped construct the celebration`s shares from scratch.Born in Gwalior in 1924, Vajpayee was the face of the BJP for many years and was the primary non-Congress prime minister to have served a full time period in workplace.He served because the Prime Minister of India from May 16, 1996, to June 1, 1996, and once more from 19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004.
He additionally served as India`s External Affairs Minister in the cupboard of Prime Minister Moraji Desai from 1977 to 1979. He handed away at AIIMS Hospital in Delhi on August 16 in 2018.After coming to energy in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in order to honour the previous Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna recipient, declared that December 25 can be celebrated as Good Governance Day yearly, his birthday.
