Late PM Vajpayee was 1st person to give Hindi speech at UN

During his tenure as the External Affairs Minister in 1977, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first person to deliver a speech in Hindi at the United Nations General Assembly. In the speech, he highlighted the Janata Party's victory over Indira Gandhi-led Congress after the Emergency period and spoke in favour of economic cooperation and nuclear disarmament.