Tributes and special celebrations on veteran politician L. K. Advani's birthday

According to a report by Hindustan Times, a special celebration was organized by the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday for the 99th birthday of the party's veteran leader L. K. Advani. On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to visit him, and a havan was also organized at the party headquarters, as informed by people associated with these arrangements.

BJP President Nitin Nabin and senior leaders of the party who have had a long association with Advani ji were scheduled to attend this celebration. According to reports by NDTV India and Hindustan Times, Lal Krishna Advani is considered among the most influential leaders in Indian politics. He was born in Karachi (Sindh, now Pakistan) in undivided India. He endured the pain of the 1947 partition and came to India as a refugee.

Advani, honored with the country's highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna', began his political journey by joining the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He began his political journey in 1951 by joining the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a party that later became the precursor to the BJP. Associated with the Sangh, Advani played a very important role in strengthening the Jana Sangh and subsequently the Bharatiya Janata Party at the national level. The Ram Janmabhoomi movement and the Rath Yatra brought him to the center of national politics.

L. K. Advani served as the party president during three different tenures, which include the periods from 1986 to 1990, 1993 to 1998, and 2004 to 2005. In the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he held the office of Union Home Minister from 1998 to 2004 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2002 to 2004.

He was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha 7 times and remained a member of the Rajya Sabha 4 times as well. In the year 2014, after the BJP came to power with a majority, Advani ji was included in the party's advisory committee 'Margdarshak Mandal' along with Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Murli Manohar Joshi.