Lal Krishna Advani is a well-known name in Indian politics. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. On Friday, February 3, 2024, the then Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi announced the award of Bharat Ratna to Lal Krishna Advani. Let us know the biography of Lal Krishna Advani in this article.
Lal Krishna Advani Biography
Advani was born on November 8, 1927. Lal Krishna Advani was born in Karachi, Sindh (then British India) into a Sindhi Hindu business family. Kishanchand D. Advani and Giani Devi were his parents.
He received his primary education in Karachi only. Thereafter, he joined D.G. Graduated from College Hyderabad, Sindh. After partition he came to India. He completed his law education from Government Law College.
Political Trip
In 1941, he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was 14 years old then. He became a full-time campaigner of the Sangh. Advani was sent as a campaigner to Matsya-Alwar in Rajasthan, where there was communal violence after partition. He worked in the districts of Alwar, Bharatpur, Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar.
When Syama Prasad Mukherjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951, Advani moved to the Jana Sangh where he served in the role of party secretary. In the year 1970, he reached Parliament as a Rajya Sabha MP. When the BJP was formed after breaking away from the Jan Sangh, he, along with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is credited with taking the BJP from 2 seats in 1984 to 182 seats in 1998. Many people also consider Advani’s Rath Yatra as the reason for the emergence of BJP.
When the NDA government was formed under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Advani took over the responsibility of Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
Since 2014, he joined BJP’s Marg Darshak Mandal along with Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
| L.K. Advani: A Timeline | |
| November 8, 1927 | Lal Krishna Advani was born in Karachi, present-day Pakistan, to parents Kishan Chand and Gyanidevi Advani. |
| 1936 -1942 | Studied at St. Patrick’s School, Karachi, standing first in every class till matriculation. |
| 1942 | Joined RSS as a volunteer. |
| 1942 | Dayaram Gidumal attended National College, Hyderabad during the Quit India Movement. |
| 1944 | Worked as a teacher in Model High School, Karachi. |
| September 12, 1947 | Departure from Sindh to Delhi by propeller plane during Partition. |
| 1947-1951 | Organized RSS work in Alwar, Bharatpur, Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar as RSS Secretary in Karachi branch. |
| early 1957 | Atal Bihari shifted to Delhi to assist Vajpayee. |
| 1958-63 | He held the post of Secretary of Delhi State Jan Sangh. |
| 1960-1967 | Joined Jan Sangh’s political magazine Organizer as assistant editor. |
| February 25, 1965 | Married to Kamala Advani, the Advani couple have two children, Pratibha and Jayant. |
| April, 1970 | Entered Rajya Sabha. |
| December, 1972 | Was elected President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh. |
| June 26, 1975 | Arrested in Bangalore during the Emergency and taken to Bangalore Central Jail along with other BJS members. |
| March 1977 to July 1979 1980-86 | Took over the post of Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting. May 1986- Became the party president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He held the post of General Secretary of BJP. |
| May, 1986 | Was declared as the party president of BJP. |
| March 3, 1988 | Was again elected party president of BJP. |
| 1988 | Took the post of Home Minister in BJP government. |
| 1990 | Ram Rath Yatra started from Somnath to Ayodhya. |
| 1997 | Swarnjayanti Rath Yatra started to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of India’s Independence. |
| October, 1999 – May, 2004 | Union Cabinet Minister, Home Ministry |
| June, 2002 – May, 2004 | Deputy Prime Minister |
List of Deputy Prime Ministers
| Deputy Prime Ministers of India | Tenure | Prime Minister |
| Sardar Patel | 1947–1950 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Morarji Desai | 1967–1969 | Indira Gandhi |
| Charan Singh and Jagjivan Ram (jointly) | 1979–1979 | Morarji Desai |
| Y. B. Chavan | 1979–1980 | Chaudhary Charan Singh |
| Devi Lal | 1989–1990 | V.P. Singh |
| Devi Lal | 1990–1991 | Chandra Shekhar |
| L. K. Advani | 2002–2004 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Bharat Ratna Award List
| Year | Recipients | About |
| Bharat Ratna 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari | Activist, statesman, and lawyer |
| Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | India’s first Vice-President and second President | |
| C. V. Raman | Physicists, mathematicians, and scientists | |
| Bharat Ratna 1955 | Bhagwan Das | Activist, philosopher, and educationist |
| M. Visvesvaraya | Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Activist and author served as the Prime Minister of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Activist and first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| Bharat Ratna 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve | Social reformer and educator |
| Bharat Ratna 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | Physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | Activist and speaker of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly | |
| Bharat Ratna 1962 | Rajendra Prasad | Activist, lawyer, statesman, and scholar |
| Bharat Ratna 1963 | Zakir Husain | Activist, economist, and education philosopher served as a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and the Governor of Bihar |
| Pandurang Vaman Kane | Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, known for his five-volume literary work | |
| Bharat Ratna 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | Activist and served as the second Prime Minister of India |
| Bharat Ratna 1971 | Indira Gandhi | First women Prime Minister of India |
| Bharat Ratna 1975 | V. V. Giri | Trade Unionist |
| Bharat Ratna 1976 | K. Kamaraj | Independence activist and statesman, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Bharat Ratna 1980 | Mother Teresa | Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave | Activist, social reformer, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Bharat Ratna 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | First noncitizen, independence activist |
| Bharat Ratna 1988 | M. G. Ramachandran | Actor turned politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| Bharat Ratna 1990 | B.R. Ambedkar | Social reformer and leader of the Dalits |
| Nelson Mandela | Leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, President of South Africa | |
| Bharat Ratna 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi | Gandhi was the ninth Prime Minister of India serving from 1984 to 1989. |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | Activist and first Deputy Prime Minister of India | |
| Morarji Desai | Activist, and Prime Minister of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad | Activist and first Minister of education |
| J. R. D. Tata | Industrialist, philanthropist, and aviation pioneer | |
| Satyajit Ray | Director, filmmaker, writer, novelist | |
| Bharat Ratna 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda | Activist, and interim Prime Minister of India. |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | Activist | |
| A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Aerospace and defense scientist | |
| Bharat Ratna 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi | Carnatic classical vocalist |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | Activist and former Minister of Agriculture of India | |
| Bharat Ratna 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Activist, and social reformer |
| Amartya Sen | Economist | |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | Activist | |
| Ravi Shankar | Musician, sitar player | |
| Bharat Ratna 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar | Singer |
| Bismillah Khan | Hindustani classical shehnai player | |
| Bharat Ratna 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi | Hindustani classical vocalist |
| Bharat Ratna 2014 | C. N. R. Rao | Chemist and professor, author |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Cricketer | |
| Bharat Ratna 2015 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Scholar and educational reformer. |
| Atal Bihari Bajpayee | Elected nine times to the Lok Sabha, twice to the Rajya Sabha, and served as the Prime Minister of India for three terms. | |
| Bharat Ratna 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee | Indian politician, and senior leader in the Indian National Congress. |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | A social activist from India, education, health, and rural self-reliance. | |
| Bhupen Hazarika | Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet, and filmmaker from Assam. |
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