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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born to Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee on 24
December 1924 in a Brahmin family. His birthplace was Shinde Ki Chhavani, a town
in the Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh (then known as Central Province). Vajpayee's
grandfather, Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee, had migrated to Gwalior from his ancestral
village of Bateshwar, Uttar Pradesh; Vajpayee's father, Krishna Bihari, was a poet
and schoolmaster in his hometown.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee attended Gwalior's Victoria College (now Laxmi Bai College),
and graduated with distinctions in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. He received a Degree
of Post Graduation (M.A.) in Political Science from DAV College, Kanpur, securing
first-class marks. He later joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and served the
Rashtradharma, Veer Arjun and Panchjanya newspapers as a journalist and poet. Vajpayee
never married, becoming the first and, to date, only bachelor Prime Minister of
India.