He served as the deputy prime minister of India from 2002 to 2004.

Lal Krishna Advani was born on November 8, 1927 in Karachi, now in Pakistan.

His family migrated to India during partition of India and settled in Bombay, now Mumbai.

He was appointed as Information and Broadcasting Minister in the Janata Party government headed by Morarji Desai.

He studied law at the Government Law College in Bombay, now Mumbai.

He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1941 at the age of 14.

He was a founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

He is the longest serving Minister of Home Affairs from 1998 to 2004.

He became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1970, a seat that he held until 1989.

He is the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.