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Lal Krishna Advani, Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
Lal Krishna Advani is a veteran Indian politician and under his leadership BJP plummeted to great heights in the realm of Indian politics. He remained the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2001 to 2004.

Lal Krishna Advani, Indian Politician Lal Krishna Advani has been one of the most powerful and influential Indian politicians and is a former Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. Advani was the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is credited with turning BJP into a significant force in Indian politics. He was also the Leader of the Opposition in the 10th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha. Lal Krishna Advani, the former President of the BJP, was widely regarded as the most powerful person in a country of over one billion people.

Early Life of Lal Krishna Advani
Lal Kishanchand Advani, also known as Lal Krishna Advani, was born on 8th November 1927 to Kishichand D. Advani and Gyani Devi, in Goregaon, Sindh, in British India. Advani studied at Saint Patrick`s High School, in Karachi (now in Pakistan) and later joined the D.G. National College in Hyderabad, Sindh. He completed his graduation in Law from the Government Law College, Bombay University.

 Minister Lal Krishna Advani  Political Career of Lal Krishna Advani
Lal Krishna Advani joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1947 as the Sangh`s Karachi branch secretary. L.K Advani was actively involved in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and was elected on the ticket of that party from 1970 to 1975. From 1970 to 1989, he was a member of the Rajya Sabha and held the post of Information and Broadcasting Minister in the Janata Party Government in 1977. In the year 1980, Advani was the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was elected to Lok Sabha as the Leader of Opposition, the lower house of the Indian Parliament in 1991 to 1993. He has served as the Home Minister in the Indian Cabinet from 1998 to 2004. He became Deputy Prime Minister in the Indian cabinet from 1999 to 2004. Advani announced on 18th September 2005 that after the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the party he would step down as party president. Thereafter at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the BJP in Mumbai in December, 2005, Lal Krishna Advani stepped down and Rajnath Singh, a mass leader from Uttar Pradesh was installed as BJP President.

In December 2007, BJP officially declared that Lal Krishna Advani would be its principal ministerial candidate for the 2009 General Elections. But the Indian National Congress party gained victory in the 2009 General election and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh continued in office. After the defeat, Advani gave way to Sushma Swaraj to be the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Personal Life of Lal Krishna Advani
Lal Krishna Advani is married and has 2 children, a son and a daughter, Pratibha.

Advani remains the Iron Man of Indian politics who brought Hindu nationalism to the centre stage of national polity in the eyes of his supporters, which propelled his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to power in Delhi.

(Last Updated on : 28/12/2011)
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