President, Vice President & PM pay tributes to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at Sadaiv Atal on his death anniversary today, August 16.

Home Minister Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Anurag Singh Thakur, and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla among other prominent leaders also paid their tributes. 

Earlier, in a tweet to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, he joined the 140 crore people of India in paying homage to the remarkable Atal Ji on



his Punya Tithi.

The Prime Minister added that India benefited greatly from his leadership and played a pivotal role in boosting our nation's progress and in taking it to the 21st century in a wide range of sectors. Vajpayee, the country's 10th prime minister, breathed his last on 18th August 2018 after a prolonged illness. Vajpayee led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governments between 1998 to 2004 and was the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to become India's Prime Minister.