Atal Bihari Vajpayee Birth Anniversary: Former Prime Minister of the country Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Today the whole country is celebrating his 99th birth anniversary. BJP is celebrating this day as Good Governance Day. Atal Bihari Vajpayee is known as the popular Prime Minister of the country. During his tenure, he took many such decisions whose benefits the country is getting today. Vajpayee has always been remembered as a seasoned politician as well as a brilliant orator and litterateur. When he gave speeches, not only his supporters but also his opponents listened to him attentively. Today, on the occasion of his 99th birth anniversary, we want to remind him again about the prediction he made regarding Congress. Seeing the condition of Congress in today’s time, everyone remembers that prediction of Vajpayee.
Vajpayee had made a prediction about Congress
Today, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, BJP is continuously reaching the peak, while on the other hand, the condition of the oldest party Congress is continuously worsening. After the results of the assembly elections of five states, the Congress government is now left in only four states. Congress had never been in such a bad situation. However, the prediction regarding the country’s oldest party was made by the country’s former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee 28 years ago. In 1996, Vajpayee, while facing the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, had said, ‘Today you are laughing at us because I have less MPs, one day the country will laugh at you’.
What statement did Vajpayee give regarding Congress?
In fact, after the results of the Lok Sabha elections in 1996, Atal Bihari Vajpayee took oath as the 11th Prime Minister of the country on 16 May 1996. But he had to face a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha. Due to one vote in the Lok Sabha, BJP could not prove its majority and Vajpayee ji had to resign from the post of Prime Minister in just 13 days. Actually, BJP got 161 seats and Congress 140 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. But in the no-confidence motion, 269 votes were cast in favor of the Vajpayee government and 270 votes were cast against it. People still remember the speech that Vajpayee ji gave that day. At that time, Vajpayee ji had said, ‘Take my words to heart, today you (Congress) are laughing because we have less members, but the day will come when we will have a government in the entire country, that day the country will laugh at you.’ .
What did Atal Bihari Vajpayee say in the House?
In fact, before resigning from the post of Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee ji had given a historic speech. He had fiercely targeted the opposition. At that time Vajpayee ji had said, what is our crime? Why are we being put in the dock? This mandate has not been given just like that. We have worked hard, there are years of struggle and practice behind this. We are serving the country selflessly and have been doing so for the last 40 years. He had further said, we have done penance, we have gone among the people. This did not happen by accident, our party is not a mushroom growing party. He had further said, parties with one seat each grow like mushrooms. They fight among themselves in the states and come to Delhi and unite. He had said, we will continue to serve the country and will not rest. Vajpayee had said in his speech, we could not get more seats, this is our weakness. We should have got majority. The President gave us an opportunity to form the government, but we did not get success. He had said, we will sit on the opposition as the largest opposition party and you will have to run the House with our support. But I don’t know what kind of government you will form, under what program it will be formed, how that government will run.