♦ Good Governance Day (Sushashan Diwas) is observed in India every year on December 25 to commemorates the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This day was established in 2014. He ws born on December 25, 1924.
♦ Vajpayee served three terms as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. He was the first-ever leader from the Bharatiya Janata Party to have become the nation's Prime Minister. He was the first Indian politician to deliver a speech in Hindi at the United Nations General Assembly.