PM Modi, President Murmu pay tributes to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 98th birth anniversary

President Droupadi Murmu, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his memorial 'Sadaiv Atal' on his 98th birth anniversary on Sunday.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda also reached the Sadaiv Atal memorial to pay floral tribute to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 98th birth anniversary.

Before heading to the memorial, PM Narendra Modi took to



Twitter and said, “Tributes to Atal Ji on his Jayanti. His contribution to India is indelible. His leadership and vision motivate millions of people.”

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born on December 25, 1924, in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Born to a poet father, Vajpayee later became a poet himself. He also did his masters in political science from Kanpur.

Vajpayee was one of the most influential leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, his persona, poetry and politics were not limited to just India but were known across the world.