Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away on Thursday, 16 August 2018.

He was India’s tenth prime minister, and the country’s first non-Congress prime minister to complete a five-year-term. He served three terms, first for 13 days in 1996, second for 13 months from March 1998 to April 1999, and third for five years from 1999-2004.

Here are some lesser known facts about Atal Bihari Vajpayee which might surprise you.