L.K.Advani- A Leading Political Personality
L.K.Advani- A Leading Political Personality
L. K. Advani was born on November 8,1927 in Karachi in a Hindu Sindhi family of businessmen. Kishanchand D. Advani was his father and Gyani Devi was mother. He completed his early schooling from Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, and then enrolled in D G National College in Hyderabad, Sindh. His family migrated to India during Partition and settled down in Bombay, where he graduated in Law from the Government Law College of the Bombay University.
L K Advani married Kamla Advani (1932-2016) in February 1965. He has a son, Jayant, and a daughter, Pratibha. Pratibha Advani produces TV serial shows, and also supports her father in his political activities.
Advani joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1942. He became a Pracharak of the Karachi branch and developed several Branches there. After Partition, Advani was sent as a pracharak to Matsya-Alwar in Rajasthan. He worked in Alwar, Bharatpur, Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar districts until 1952
Advani became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, also known simply as the Jana Sangh, a political party founded in 1951 by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in collaboration with the RSS. He was appointed as the secretary to S. S. Bhandari, then General Secretary of the Jana Sangh in Rajasthan. In 1957, he was moved to Delhi to look after the Parliamentary affairs. He soon became the General Secretary and, later, President of the Delhi unit of the Jana Sangh. After the 1967 elections, he became the leader of the city's Metropolitan Council. He also assisted K. R. Malkani in editing the RSS weekly Organiser, and became a member of the national executive in 1966.
He became member of the Rajya Sabha from Delhi for the six-year tenure from 1970. After serving various positions in the Jana Sangh, he became its President in 1973 at the Kanpur session of the party working committee.He was a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat from 1976 to 1982.After the Indira Gandhi's Emergency, the Jana Sangh and many other opposition parties merged into the Janata Party. Advani and colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee fought the Lok Sabha Elections of 1977 as members of the Janata Party.
Advani was a prominent leader of the newly founded BJP and represented the party in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Indian Parliament) from Madhya Pradesh for two terms beginning in 1982. And Atal Bihari Vajpayee was appointed the first president of the new party.Under Advani, the BJP became the political face of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign.
Advani started his first Rath Yatra from Somnath, Gujarat on 25 September 1990 to finally reach Ayodhya on 30 October 1990.
Advani became Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
POST HE HOLD
1967–70: Chairman, Metropolitan Council, Delhi[4]
1970–72: President, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Delhi
1970–89: Member, Rajya Sabha (four terms)
1973–77: President, Jana Sangh
1977: General-Secretary, Janata Party
1977–79: Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
1977–79: Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha
1980–86: General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
1980-86: Leader, BJP, Rajya Sabha
1986–91: President, BJP
1989: Elected to 9th Lok Sabha(1st term) New Delhi
1989–91: Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha
1991–93: Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha
1991: Elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1993–98: President, Bharatiya Janata Party
1998: Elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1998–99: Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs
1999: Elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1999–2004: Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs
2002–2004: Deputy Prime Minister of India
2002: Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines
2004: Elected to 14th Lok Sabha (5th term)
2009: Elected to 15th Lok Sabha (6th term)
2014: Elected to 16th Lok Sabha (7th term)
L. K. Advani was born on November 8,1927 in Karachi in a Hindu Sindhi family of businessmen. Kishanchand D. Advani was his father and Gyani Devi was mother. He completed his early schooling from Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi, and then enrolled in D G National College in Hyderabad, Sindh. His family migrated to India during Partition and settled down in Bombay, where he graduated in Law from the Government Law College of the Bombay University.
L K Advani married Kamla Advani (1932-2016) in February 1965. He has a son, Jayant, and a daughter, Pratibha. Pratibha Advani produces TV serial shows, and also supports her father in his political activities.
Advani joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1942. He became a Pracharak of the Karachi branch and developed several Branches there. After Partition, Advani was sent as a pracharak to Matsya-Alwar in Rajasthan. He worked in Alwar, Bharatpur, Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar districts until 1952
Advani became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, also known simply as the Jana Sangh, a political party founded in 1951 by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in collaboration with the RSS. He was appointed as the secretary to S. S. Bhandari, then General Secretary of the Jana Sangh in Rajasthan. In 1957, he was moved to Delhi to look after the Parliamentary affairs. He soon became the General Secretary and, later, President of the Delhi unit of the Jana Sangh. After the 1967 elections, he became the leader of the city's Metropolitan Council. He also assisted K. R. Malkani in editing the RSS weekly Organiser, and became a member of the national executive in 1966.
He became member of the Rajya Sabha from Delhi for the six-year tenure from 1970. After serving various positions in the Jana Sangh, he became its President in 1973 at the Kanpur session of the party working committee.He was a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat from 1976 to 1982.After the Indira Gandhi's Emergency, the Jana Sangh and many other opposition parties merged into the Janata Party. Advani and colleague Atal Bihari Vajpayee fought the Lok Sabha Elections of 1977 as members of the Janata Party.
Advani was a prominent leader of the newly founded BJP and represented the party in the Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Indian Parliament) from Madhya Pradesh for two terms beginning in 1982. And Atal Bihari Vajpayee was appointed the first president of the new party.Under Advani, the BJP became the political face of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign.Advani started his first Rath Yatra from Somnath, Gujarat on 25 September 1990 to finally reach Ayodhya on 30 October 1990.
Advani became Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
POST HE HOLD
1967–70: Chairman, Metropolitan Council, Delhi[4]
1970–72: President, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Delhi
1970–89: Member, Rajya Sabha (four terms)
1973–77: President, Jana Sangh
1977: General-Secretary, Janata Party
1977–79: Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
1977–79: Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha
1980–86: General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
1980-86: Leader, BJP, Rajya Sabha
1986–91: President, BJP
1989: Elected to 9th Lok Sabha(1st term) New Delhi
1989–91: Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha
1991–93: Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha
1991: Elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
1993–98: President, Bharatiya Janata Party
1998: Elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
1998–99: Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs
1999: Elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
1999–2004: Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs
2002–2004: Deputy Prime Minister of India
2002: Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines
2004: Elected to 14th Lok Sabha (5th term)
2009: Elected to 15th Lok Sabha (6th term)
2014: Elected to 16th Lok Sabha (7th term)