1991 in India

Template:Year in region Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

President of India – R. Venkataraman
Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao
Chief Justice of India –
- until 24 November – Ranganath Misra
- 25 November-12 December – Kamal Narain Singh
- starting 13 December – Madhukar Hiralal Kania

Governors

Arunachal Pradesh –
- until 16 March: Raja Gopal Singh
- 16 March-25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy
Assam –
Bihar –
Goa –
Gujarat –
Haryana –
Himachal Pradesh –
Jammu and Kashmir –
Karnataka –
Kerala –
Madhya Pradesh –
Maharashtra –
Manipur –
Meghalaya –
Mizoram –
Nagaland –
Odisha –
Punjab –
Rajasthan –
Sikkim –
Tamil Nadu –
Tripura –
Uttar Pradesh –
West Bengal –

Events

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: The stone mosaic that stands at the exact location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur

6 January – The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded in Udaipur.
21 May – Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu during the election campaign.
31 May – The Government of India constitutes the Company Law Board as an independent quasi-judicial body thus giving up direct control on matters of company law.
15 June – When the general election results are all compiled, the Congress Party has won a plurality of votes.
21 June – Indian National Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister.
24 June – J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
24 July – The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
17 October – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.^[1]
20 October – The 6.8 M_w  Uttarkashi earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 768–2,000 and injuring 1,383–1,800.
11 December – Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.

Births

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Karun Nair
26 January – Vijay Shankar, cricketer
16 February – Mayank Agarwal, cricketer
24 March – Krunal Pandya, cricketer
9 August – Hansika Motwani, actress
27 September – Amzad Ali, cricketer
16 October – Shardul Thakur, cricketer
26 October – Amala Paul, actress
6 December – Karun Nair, Indian cricketer

Deaths

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Nutan
21 February – Nutan, Bollywood actress
15 May – Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (born 1901)
Rajiv Gandhi
21 May – Rajiv Gandhi, prime minister (1984–1989), Bharat Ratna (1991) (born 1944)
24 October – Ismat Chughtai, writer (born 1915)

References

↑ 2 Bombs Kill 41 and Injure 140 in India during Ramlila [1]

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1991 in India

Contents

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Births

Deaths

References

See also