LUCKNOW, Aug. 17 -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born in a humble family, believed in karma, turned politics into a medium of service and left his mark in every field he touched, said Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The CM also released a book 'Atulniya Atalji (Vyaktitva, Vichar aur Virasat)' authored by deputy CM Brajesh Pathak.

He was addressing a gathering at an event at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Convention Centre organised by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Foundation on Saturday to mark the seventh death anniversary of the late PM. Calling it Uttar Pradesh's good fortune that Bateshwar in Agra was Vajpayee's ancestral land, the CM recalled that the former PM pursued higher education in Kanpur and began his political journey from B...