Vajpayee favorite PM of Gwalior kids

VISHAL SHARMA

GWALIOR, 25 Dec. When former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was busily receiving guests on his 81st birthday on Saturday at the local Usha Kiran Palace, two girls were crying their hearts out at the hotel gate for not being able to be among the first people to wish Mr. Vajpyee a "Happy Birthday".

Sitting adamantly at the main gate-post of the hotel where Mr. Vajpayee was staying, the girls said that they had been requesting for a permission to meet Mr. Vajpayee since 8 am in the morning but the police did not allow them to enter the hotel asking them to come back at 11 am, but they decided to wait.

But at 11 am, when they were told by the SPG personnel that Mr. Vajpayee could not meet them as their name was not on the "official" list of visitors, the heartbroken kids broke into tears which ultimately melted the stone-hearts of the SPG men sufficiently enough to let the girls line up at the hotel porch to greet Mr. Vajpayee as he boarded his car on his way to the circuit house.
Delighted, the girls ran into the hotel premises where they complained to this correspondent "uncle in logon ne mujhe subah se rulaya hai". Asked how she came to know that it was Mr. vajpaye's birthday, Kamini Lalwani, a student of Saraswati Shishu Mandir snickered and said that this was a silly question as every resident of Gwalior knows that it's Mr. Vajpayee's birthday, though she did not know exactly "which" birthday.
Barely a student of the secondary classes, Amita Agarwal quite frankly said that it was very disappointing that the people of India did not re-elect Mr. Vajpayee as the prime minister because "Sonia gandhi" was not fit to become the leader of this country and she was spoiling the image of India as a strong, firm-willed country that Mr. Vajpayee had made it.
Later, Mr. Vajpayee received the girls in the front porch of the hotel before he boarded the car and accepted their bouquet. But other people, including the former Mathura MLA Ram Swaroop Sharma, who had brought the famous "Peda" of Mathura for Mr. Vajpayee, were turned back by the SPG upon their arrival at the hotel, saying that since their name was not on the list, they could only meet Mr. Vajpayee at the circuit house.
Earlier, the family members of Mr. Vajpayee were the first to wish his on his 81st birthday and the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur arrived later on with his cabinet colleagues. At the circuit house, Mr. Vajpayee accepted the greetings of prominent residents of Gwalior and the Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Sindhia alongwith a number of political personalities, though no senior party functionary from the Center was present at this occasion, when Mr. Vajpayee celebrated his birthday in a homely atmosphere after he cancelled all his programmes due to the 7-day national mourning on the death of former prime minister PV Narsimha Rao.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)

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