L.K.Advani

Trivia

• Positions held: 5 August 2006- onwards Member, Committee on Home Affairs 2004 - Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 5th term) Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha 29 Jan. 2003 - 21May 2004 Union Cabinet Minister, Personnel, Pensions and Public Grievances(Additional Charge) 1 July 2002 - 25 Aug. 2002 Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines 29 June 2002 - May 2004 Deputy Prime Minister 13 Oct. 1999 - May 2004 Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs 1999 - Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term) 1998-99 - Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs Chairman,Committee on Official Languag 1998 - Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term) 1993-98 - President, Bharatiya Janata Party 1991-93 - Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha 1991 - Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term) April-May 1990 - Chairman, Committee of Parliament appointed to advise the structure of pay and allowances and other terms & conditions of service for the post of Secretaries-General of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha 1990-91 - Chairman, Committee to Review the Lok Sabha Secretariat (Recruitment and Conditions of Service Rules, 1955) 1989-91 - Leader, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha 1989 - Elected to 9th Lok Sabha 1988 - Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (4th term) 1986-91 - President, B.J.P. 1982 - Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (3rd term) 1980-86 - General-Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) Leader, B.J.P., Rajya Sabha Jan.-April 1980 - Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha 1977-79 - Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha 1977-80 - General-Secretary, Janata Party 1976 - Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (2nd term) 1974-76 - Leader, B.J.S., Rajya Sabha 1973-77 - President, B.J.S. 1970 - Elected to Rajya Sabha 1970-72 - President, Bhartiya Jana Sangh, Delhi 1967-70 - Chairman, Metropolitan Council, Delhi 1966-67 - Leader, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (B.J.S.), Interim Metropolitan Council 1947 - Secretary, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (R.S.S.), Karachi
• In 2008, Advani released a personal autobiography, My Country, My Life. The book was published by the Rupa & Co and released by former Indian president Abdul Kalam on March 19, 2008. It has become an instant bestseller in India and has been consistently topping the charts in non-fiction book category.
• 1992 - This later led to violent scenes with the destruction of the 16th century Babri mosque by Hindu hardliners, followed by some of India's worst religious violence since partition.
• 1990 - He travelled across India , whipping up support for a campaign to build a temple on the site of a mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya.
• Countries visited - Czechoslovakia, Australia, Kuala Lumpur, Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Pakistan, Switzerland, U.K. U.S.A. U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia
• Though he was not a practicing lawyer, he argued on behalf of his party in 1974 before the Supreme Court.
• He was also a journalist.
• He is the only Indian politician to undergo three major political yatras at an interval of seven years.
• He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist organization from which the BJP draws its ideological roots.
• Favourite Book: Alvin Toffler's 'Future Shock'