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1996 in India

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1996
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Events in the year 1996 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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Governors

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Events

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  • National income - 13,948,160 million

January - June

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July - December

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  • 11 July –
  • A Delhi court summons Congress president P.V. Narasimha Rao to testify as the co-accused in a cheating case.
  • Bathani Tola massacre
  • 28 August – At least 194 pilgrims are reported to have frozen to death in northern Kashmir after being stranded by violent rain and snow storms in the Amarnath Yatra tragedy.
  • 19 September – The government of Gujarat under Chief Minister Suresh Mehta is sacked on recommendation of Prime Minister Gowda, and federal rule is imposed over the state. The move comes a day after the BJP government in Gujarat won a controversial vote of confidence in the state legislature. Mehta won the vote after the acting assembly speaker (a BJP member) suspended all opposition legislators. Fighting broke out on the floor of the assembly after marshals tried to force the suspended legislators to leave. Witnesses said lawmakers hurled pin cushions and microphones at each other. Several lawmakers and journalists were reportedly injured in the scuffles.[citation needed]
  • 22 September – Rao resigns as president of the Congress Party.
  • 23 September – Sitaram Kesri is elected Congress president.
  • 4 October – Palakkad district Collector W.R. Reddy IAS kept in hostage by members of Ayyankali Pada in district collectorate as a protest to Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction of Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act.[3][4][5]
  • 10 October – Rao is arrested on fresh charges of forgery.
  • 11 October – An Uttar Pradesh state election returns a hung assembly; the local power struggle sharpens conflicts between Congress and coalition parties at national level.
  • 30 October – Michael Jackson arrived in Mumbai as a part of his HIStory World Tour and he performed for the first time ever in India in front of 66,000 fans on 1 November 1996 at Andheri Sports Complex.[6]
  • 7 November – A devastating Category 4 Cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 people die. 95% of the crops are completely destroyed.
  • 12 November – A Saudi Arabian Boeing 747 jumbo jet and a Kazakhstan Ilyushin cargo plane collide near Charkhi Dadri, killing 349 people in the world's deadliest mid-air collision.
  • 28 November – Chinese President Jiang Zemin begins his three-day visit, the first visit by a Chinese head of state to India.
  • 19 December – Rao resigns as Congress parliamentary leader, his last official party position.
  • 30 December – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.

Law

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Births

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Hiba Nawab

Deaths

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Full date unknown

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CPI(M)'s United Front Politics : Hotbed of Opportunism". Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  2. ^ "The United Front and the Crisis of Governance in India -- Bedabrata Pain". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Toy gun, a hostage and elusive justice". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Pada: When a unique protest for Adivasi rights held Kerala hostage for nine hours". The Indian Express. 11 March 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  5. ^ "The 4-man army: Meet the Ayyankali Pada activists whose life & politics inspired Pada". The News Minute. 12 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Why Michael Jackson Paid Thackeray". www.outlookindia.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  7. ^ Goswami, Parismita (8 January 2016). "Swaragini actress Swara aka Helly Shah celebrates birthday with co-actors". International Business Times. Retrieved 12 December 2016.