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.
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.
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 |
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