Lal Krishna Advani | |
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7th Deputy Prime Minister of India | |
In office 29 June 2002 –22 May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Devi Lal |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
21st Union Minister of Home Affairs | |
In office 19 March 1998 –22 May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Indrajit Gupta |
Succeeded by | Shivraj Patil |
16th Union Minister of Coal and Mines | |
In office 1 July 2002 –26 August 2002 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Succeeded by | Uma Bharati |
17th Union Minister of Personnel,Public Grievances and Pensions | |
In office 29 January 2003 –21 May 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Preceded by | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Succeeded by | Manmohan Singh |
6th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha | |
In office May 2004 –December 2009 | |
Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
Preceded by | Sonia Gandhi |
Succeeded by | Sushma Swaraj |
In office 24 December 1990 –26 July 1993 | |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | Rajiv Gandhi |
Succeeded by | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha | |
In office 28 February 1998 –23 May 2019 | |
Preceded by | Vijay Patel |
Succeeded by | Amit Shah |
Constituency | Gandhinagar,Gujarat |
In office 26 November 1989 –7 May 1996 | |
Preceded by | Krishna Chandra Pant |
Succeeded by | Rajesh Khanna |
Constituency | New Delhi,Delhi |
2nd President of the Bharatiya Janata Party | |
In office 2004–2005 | |
Preceded by | Venkaiah Naidu |
Succeeded by | Rajnath Singh |
In office 1993–1998 | |
Preceded by | Murli Manohar Joshi |
Succeeded by | Kushabhau Thakre |
In office 1986–1991 | |
Preceded by | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Succeeded by | Murli Manohar Joshi |
5th Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha | |
In office 21 January 1980 –7 April 1980 | |
Vice President | Mohammad Hidayatullah |
Preceded by | Kamalapati Tripathi |
Succeeded by | P. Shiv Shankar |
11th Union Minister of Information &Broadcasting | |
In office 24 March 1977 –28 July 1979 | |
Prime Minister | Morarji Desai |
Preceded by | Vidya Charan Shukla |
Succeeded by | Purushottam Kaushik |
Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha | |
In office 3 April 1988 –30 November 1989 | |
Preceded by | Hans Raj Bhardwaj |
Succeeded by | Jinendra Kumar Jain |
Constituency | Madhya Pradesh |
In office 3 April 1982 –2 April 1988 | |
Preceded by | Sawai Singh Sisodiya |
Succeeded by | Radhakishan Malviya |
Constituency | Madhya Pradesh |
In office 3 April 1976 –2 April 1982 | |
Preceded by | Devdatt Kumar Kikabhai Patel |
Succeeded by | Kumud Ben Joshi |
Constituency | Gujarat |
Personal details | |
Born | Lal Krishna Advani 8 November 1927 Karachi,Bombay Presidency,British India (present–day Sindh,Pakistan) |
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (1980–present) |
Other political affiliations |
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Spouse | Kamla Advani (m. 1965;died 2016) |
Children | Pratibha Advani (daughter) Jayant Advani (son) |
Awards | Bharat Ratna Padma Vibhushan |
Signature | |
Lal Krishna Advani (born 8 November 1927) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He is one of the co-founders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. He is the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs serving from 1998 to 2004. He is also the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He was the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP during the 2009 general election.
Advani was born in Karachi and migrated to India during the Partition of India and settled down in Bombay where he completed his college education. Advani joined the RSS in 1941 at the age of fourteen and worked as a pracharak in Rajasthan. In 1951, Advani became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founded by Syama Prasad Mookerjee and performed various roles including in charge of parliamentary affairs, general secretary, and president of the Delhi unit. In 1967, he was elected as the chairman of the First Delhi metropolitan council and served till 1970 while becoming a member of the RSS national executive. In 1970, Advani became a member of the Rajya Sabha for the first time and would go on to serve four terms till 1989. He became the president of Jana Sangh in 1973 and Jana Sangh merged into the Janata Party before the 1977 general election. Following the Janata party's victory in the elections, Advani became the union minister for Information and Broadcasting and leader of the house in Rajya Sabha.
In 1980, he was one of the founding members of the BJP along with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and served as the president of the party three times. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1989 where he served seven terms. In 1992, he was alleged to have been part of the Demolition of the Babri Masjid, but was acquitted by the courts due to lack of evidence. Following the same, he was one of the chief proponents of the movement to build a temple over the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya and the subsequent rise of Hindutva politics in the late 1990s. He has served as leader of opposition in both the houses. He was the minister of home affairs from 1998 to 2004 and deputy prime minister from 2002 to 2004. He served in the Indian parliament until 2019 and is credited for rise of BJP as a major political party. In 2015, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour and in 2024, he was conferred with Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. [2]
Advani was born on 8 November 1927 in Karachi, British India in a Sindhi Hindu Lohana family [3] [4] [5] to Kishanchand D. Advani and Gyani Devi. [6]
Advani was educated at St. Patrick's High School, Karachi, and at D.G. National College, Hyderabad, Sindh. [7] His family migrated to India during partition of India and settled in Bombay, where he graduated in Law from the Government Law College of the Bombay University. [8] [9]
Advani married Kamla Advani in February 1965 and they have a son Jayant and a daughter Pratibha. [10] Pratibha is a television producer and also supports her father in his political activities. [11] His wife died on 6 April 2016 due to old age. [12] Advani resides in Delhi. [13]
Advani joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1941 at the age of fourteen. [14] He became a pracharak (full-time worker) conducting shakhas and became the secretary of the Karachi unit in 1947. [15] After the partition of India, Advani was a pracharak in Rajasthan working across Alwar, Bharatpur, Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar districts until 1952. [16]
Advani became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), 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 moved to Delhi and became the general secretary and later, president of the Delhi unit of the Jana Sangh. From 1966 to 1967 he served as the leader of BJS in the Delhi Metropolitan Council (DMC). After the 1967 Delhi Metropolitan Council election, he was elected as the chairman of the council and served till 1970. [8] [17] He also assisted K. R. Malkani with the publication of Organiser, the weekly newsletter of the RSS and became a member of its national executive in 1966. [16]
In 1970, Advani became a member of the Rajya Sabha from Delhi for the six-year tenure. [18] In 1973, he was elected as the president of BJS at the Kanpur session of the party working committee meeting. [8]
Advani was reelected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in 1976 for the second time. [18] After the imposition of Emergency and crack down on opposition parties by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, BJS and other opposition parties merged to form the Janata Party. [19] In the 1977 election, Janata Party won a landslide victory due to the widespread unpopularity of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. [20] Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister with Advani becoming the Minister of Information and Broadcasting. [21] The government did not complete its five year term and was dissolved to call fresh elections in 1980 where Janata party lost to the Indian National Congress. [22] [23] Subsequently, Advani became the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha. [8]
On 6 April 1980, Advani along with few of the erstwhile members of the Jana Sangh quit the Janata Party and formed the Bharatiya Janata Party with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the first president. [24] Though the previous government lasted briefly from 1977 till 1980 and was marred with factional wars, the period saw a rise in support for the RSS which culminated into the formation of the BJP. [25] In 1982, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the third time from Madhya Pradesh representing the BJP. [18] BJP won only two seats in the 1984 election with the Congress winning a landslide on the back of a sympathy wave due to the assassination of Indira Gandhi. This failure led to a shift in the party's stance with Advani being appointed party president and the BJP turning to Hindutva ideology of Jana Sangh. [26]
Under Advani, BJP became the political face of the Ayodhya dispute over the Ram Janmabhoomi site when the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) begun a movement for the construction of a temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Rama at the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. [27] The dispute centered on the basis of the belief that the site was the birthplace of Rama, and that a temple once stood there that had been demolished by the Mughal emperor Babur with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) supporting the claim. [28] [29] BJP supported the campaign and made it a part of their election manifesto for the 1989 elections helping it win 86 seats with Advani getting elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time. Advani became the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha when VP Singh formed the National Front government. [30]
In 1990, Advani embarked on Ram Rath Yatra, a procession with a chariot to mobilise volunteers for Ram Janmabhoomi movement. The procession began from Somnath in Gujarat and headed to converge at Ayodhya. [31] In the 1991 general election, the BJP became the second largest party after the Congress with Advani winning for the second time from Gandhinagar and becoming the leader of opposition again. [32] In 1992, Babri Masjid was demolished with Advani alleged to have delivered a provocative speech prior to the demolition. [33] [34] [35] Advani was among the accused in the demolition case but was acquitted on 30 September 2020 by a CBI's special court. [36] [37] In the judgement, it was mentioned that the demolition was not pre-planned and that Advani was trying to stop the mob and not incite them. [38] [39]
In the 1996 general election, the BJP became the single largest party and was consequently invited by the President to form the government. Advani did not contest the elections over allegations of involvement in the Hawala scandal from which he was acquitted later by Supreme Court. [40] [41] While Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister in May 1996, the government collapsed after just thirteen days. [42]
In the 1998 general election, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), came to power with Vajpayee returning as Prime Minister in March 1998. [43] Advani was elected to the Lok Sabha for the third term and became the Home Minister. [8] However, the government again collapsed after only thirteen months when All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) under J. Jayalalitha withdrew its support to the government. [43] With fresh elections being called, the BJP led NDA again won a majority in the 1999 general election and Advani won from Gandhinagar for the fourth term. He assumed the office of Home Minister and was later elevated to the position of Deputy Prime Minister in 2002. [44] [45]
In the 2004 general election, the BJP suffered a defeat with United Progressive Alliance led by the Congress coming to power, with Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister. [46] Advani won his fifth term to the Lok Sabha and became the leader of opposition. [47] [48] Vajpayee retired from active politics after the 2004 defeat, promoting Advani to lead the BJP. [49] In June 2005, while on a visit to Karachi, Advani described Mohammad Ali Jinnah as a "secular" leader which led to criticism from the RSS. Advani was forced to resign as BJP president but withdrew the resignation a few days later. [50] In April 2005, RSS chief K. S. Sudarshan opined that Advani should step aside. [51] At the silver jubilee celebrations of the BJP in Mumbai in December 2005, Advani stepped down as party president and Rajnath Singh, from Uttar Pradesh was elected in his place. In March 2006, following a bomb blast at a Hindu shrine at Varanasi, Advani undertook a "Bharat Suraksha Yatra" (Sojourn for National Security), to highlight the alleged failure of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in combating terrorism. [52]
In December 2006, Advani stated that as the leader of the opposition in a parliamentary democracy, he considered himself the Prime Ministerial candidate for the next general elections in May 2009. [53] While not everyone was supportive of his candidacy, Vajpayee endorsed Advani's candidacy. [54] On 2 May 2007, BJP President Rajnath Singh stated that Advani is the natural choice for the next prime minister if BJP won the next elections. [55] On 10 December 2007, the Parliamentary Board of BJP formally announced that L. K. Advani would be its prime ministerial candidate for the general elections due in 2009. [56]
Though Advani won his sixth term in Lok Sabha, the BJP lost to Congress and its allies in the 2009 general elections, allowing then incumbent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to continue in office. Following the defeat in the elections, L. K. Advani handed over the position of leader of opposition to Sushma Swaraj. [57] [58] He was elected working chairman of the National Democratic Alliance in 2010. [59] Advani contested the 2014 general election from Gandhinagar, winning for the fifth consecutive time. Later he was part of the Marg Darshak Mandal (vision committee) of the BJP along with Murli Manohar Joshi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. [60]
Advani often organised Rath yatras or processions to boost the popularity of the BJP and unify the Hindutva ideology. He organized six rath yatras or processions across the country with the first one in 1990. [61]
Position | Duration |
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Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Maintenance of Heritage Character and Development of Parliament House Complex | 8 Oct. 2014 - 25 May 2019 |
Chairperson, Committee on Ethics | 15 Sep. 2014 - 25 May 2019 |
Member, Standing Committee on Information Technology | 1 Sep. 2014 - 25 May 2019 |
Member, Committee on Public Undertakings | 14 Aug. 2014 - 25 May 2019 |
Member, 16th Lok Sabha | Re-elected in May 2014 (7th term) |
Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Maintenance of Heritage Character and Development of Parliament House Complex | 15 Dec. 2009 |
Member, Standing Committee on Home Affairs | 31 Aug. 2009 |
Member, Committee on Installation of Portraits/Statues of National Leaders and Parliamentarians in Parliament House Complex | 4 Aug. 2009 |
Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha | May 2009 - 21 Dec. 2009 |
Member, 15th Lok Sabha | Re-elected in 2009 (6th term) |
Member, Standing Committee on Home Affairs | 5 Aug. 2006 - May 2009 |
Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha | [Period not specified] |
Member, 14th Lok Sabha | Re-elected in 2004 (5th term) |
Union Cabinet Minister, Personnel, Pensions and Public Grievances (Additional Charge) | 29 Jan. 2003 - 21 May 2004 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines (Additional Charge) | 1 Jul. 2002 - 25 Aug. 2002 |
Deputy Prime Minister | 29 Jun. 2002 - May 2004 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs | 13 Oct. 1999 - May 2004 |
Member, 13th Lok Sabha | Re-elected in 1999 (4th term) |
Chairman, Committee on Official Language | [Period not specified] |
Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs | 1998-1999 |
Member, 12th Lok Sabha | Re-elected in 1998 (3rd term) |
President, Bharatiya Janata Party | 1993-1998 |
Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha | 1991-1993 |
Member, 10th Lok Sabha | Re-elected in 1991 (2nd term) |
Chairman, Committee of Parliament on Pay and Allowances | Apr.-May 1990 |
Chairman, Committee to Review the Lok Sabha Secretariat | 1990-1991 |
Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha | [Period not specified] |
Leader, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha | 1989-1991 |
Member, 9th Lok Sabha | Elected in 1989 |
Member, Rajya Sabha | Re-elected in 1988 (4th term) |
President, B.J.P. | 1986-1991 |
Member, Rajya Sabha | Re-elected in 1982 (3rd term) |
Leader, B.J.P., Rajya Sabha | [Period not specified] |
General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) | 1980-1986 |
Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha | Jan.-Apr. 1980 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting | 1977-1979 |
Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha | [Period not specified] |
General Secretary, Janata Party | 1977-1980 |
Member, Rajya Sabha | Re-elected in 1976 (2nd term) |
Leader, B.J.S., Rajya Sabha | 1974-1976 |
President, B.J.S. | 1973-1977 |
Member, Rajya Sabha | Elected in 1970 |
President, Bhartiya Jana Sangh, Delhi | 1970-1972 |
Chairman, Metropolitan Council, Delhi | 1967-1970 |
Leader, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S.), Interim Metropolitan Council | 1966-1967 |
Secretary, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (R.S.S.), Karachi | 1947 |
Ribbon | Decoration | Country | Date | Note | Ref. |
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Padma Vibhushan | India | 2015 | The second-highest civilian honour of India. | [70] | |
Bharat Ratna | 2024 | The highest civilian honour of India. | [71] |
He is popularly known as "Loh Purush" (Iron Man)." [79] [80]
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