Lal Krishna Advani.

A short biography on Lal Krishna Advani.

Lal Krishna Advani is one of the senior-most leaders in Indian politics and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is one of the prominent figures in Indian politics. Advani remained the Leader of Opposition in the 10th and 14th Lok Sabha.

His vast experience and seniority in Indian politics are apparent from the fact that he played key roles both as a ruling party member and also a member of the largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha.

At the time of the BJP National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government from the year 1998 to 2004, Lal Krishna served as Home Minister and later as Deputy Prime Minister under the Prime Ministership of Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Let us know about the early life and career of Lal Krishna Advani.

Lal Krishna Advani was born on November 8th, in the year 1927 in Karachi, a place in Pakistan to Shri Kishinchand Advani and Gyanidevi. They all belonged to the Amil section of Sindhi Hindus.

They were a very famous clan in Sindh and with time they ruled government jobs and businesses in the area. Shri Dharamdas Khubchand Advani, Advani’s grandfather, was a Sanskrit scholar and also the principal of a government high school.

Advani, after graduating from the D.G. National College in Hyderabad. He studied law at the Government Law College in Bombay now called Mumbai. Later he joined the militant Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) a “National Volunteers Corps” and took charge of its activities in Rajasthan in 1947.

Advani became secretary of the party’s unit leading in Rajasthan when Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh an Indian People’s Association, becoming the political wing of the RSS, in the year 1951. He held that position until 1970 and then he moved to the Delhi unit.

Advani became a member of the Rajya Sabha in the year 1970 the upper house of Indian parliament, a position that he held until 1989. Advani was elected as the president of the BJS in 1973 and continued at the wheel until 1977.

Advani renounced the post when he was appointed as Information and Broadcasting Minister in the Janata Party, a combination of several major parties.

During his ministerial tenure, he ended press censorship, abolished all antipress legislation enacted during the period of national emergency in the year 1975, and institutionalized reforms to safeguard the freedom of the Indian media.

Following the downfall of the Desai government and the breakdown of the BJS, a large number of the party’s members led by Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed a new political party known as the Hindu BJP in the year 1980.

To spread the party and announce its agenda, L.K Advani initiated a series of rath yatras likewise called political tours, traveling the nation in the 1990s. Later they started working to expand its electoral base; this party adopted a more conservative, secular agenda in the mid-1990s.

This strategy helped the BJP’s success in the parliamentary elections in 1998 and 1999. That success continued to Advani personally as he got elected to the Lok Sabha in the year 1998, representing Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

Advani got appointed twice as the Union Home Minister in the BJP government in 1998 and 1999, He was also named as the Deputy Prime Minister in the year 2002.

When his party got defeated in the general elections of 2004, he became the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. He ran as his party’s Prime Ministerial candidate in the 2009 general elections. Later he resigned from his cabinet position following the party’s defeat.

This was all about his early life and political career.

Other interesting facts from his journey include: Advani is considered the architect of the Lord Rama Janmabhoomi campaign. Advani began on a “Rath Yatra” journey, to mobilize karsevaks, volunteers, to unite upon the Babri Masjid to offer prayers. After two years this campaign proved it’s worth declaring the offering of prayers granted by Law.

In this article, we have discussed the life of the great political leader, his activities which helped many people, his valuable contributions to the nation, and his rath yatras.