FEW FACTS ON LAL KRISHNA ADVANI ( BHARAT RATNA LAL KRISHNA ADVANI)

BORN IN - 8th November 1927 ( Karachi, Present Pakistan) 

Father - Shri Kishenchand Advani 

Mother - Gyani Devi Advani 

* 1942 - Join The RSS As Swayam Sevak. 

* 1942 - Join Dataram Gidumal National College, During Quit India Movement 

* 1944  - Work As Teacher In Model High School, Karachi 

* 1947 - Left Sindh During Partition 

* 1957 - Join With Atal Bihari Vajpayee 

* 1958-63 - Secretary Of Delhi State Jana Sangh 

* 1960-67 - Assistant Editor Of The Organiser 

* 1965 - Married 

* 1967-70 - Chairman, Metropolitan Council, Delhi 

* 1970-72 - President Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS) 

* 1970 - Elected To Rajya Sabha 

* 1973-77 - President Of BJS 

* 1976 - Re-Elected To Rajya Sabha ( During Emergency) 

* 1977-79 - Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting And Leader Of The House, Rajya Sabha 

* 1980-86 - General Secretary BJP 

* 1989 - Elected To 9th Lok Sabha 

* 1989-91 - Leader Of Opposition, Lok Sabha 

* 1993-98 - President Of BJP 

* 1998 - RE-Elected To 10th Lok Sabha 

* 1998-99 - Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs 

* 1999 - Re-elected To 13th Lok Sabha 

* 1999-2004 - Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs 

* 2002 - Deputy Prime Minister 

* 2004 - Re-elected To 14th Lok Sabha 

* 2009 - Re-elected To 15th Lok Sabha 

* 2014 - Re-elected To 16th Lok Sabha ( 7th Term) 

AWARDS - 

2015 - Padma Vibhushan 

2024 - Bharat Ratna 

BOOKS - 

* A Prisoner's Scarp Book : An Account Of Unfolding Of Events Of The Internal Emergency Imposed On The Country As Seen From a Prison House 

* The People Betrayed 

* My Country My Life ( An Autobiography)