1991 in India

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Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[edit]

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[edit]

Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
Arunachal Pradesh –
- until 16 March: Devi Das Thakur
- 16 March-25 March: Loknath Mishra
- starting 25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy
Assam – Devi Das Thakur (until 17 March), Loknath Mishra (starting 17 March)
Bihar –
- until 13 February: Mohammad Saleem
- 14 February-18 March: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
- starting 18 March: Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
Goa – Khurshed Alam Khan (until 17 March), Bhanu Prakash Singh (starting 18 March)
Gujarat – Sarup Singh
Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
Himachal Pradesh – Virendra Verma
Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena
Karnataka – Bhanu Pratap Singh
Kerala – B. Rachaiah
Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan
Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam
Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi
Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe (starting 8 May)
Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal
Nagaland – M. M. Thomas
Odisha – Yagya Dutt Sharma
Punjab – Om Prakash Malhotra (until 7 August), Surendra Nath (starting 7 August)
Rajasthan – Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya (until 26 August), Sarup Singh (starting 26 August)
Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
Tamil Nadu – Surjit Singh Barnala (until 14 February), Bhishma Narain Singh (starting 14 February)
Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy
West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events[edit]

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

National income - ₹6,622,605 million
1 January - Minister of Civil Aviation Harmohan Dhawan declares Thiruvananthapuram Airport as International airport.
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.

Law[edit]

Births[edit]

26 January – Vijay Shankar, cricketer
16 February – Mayank Agarwal, cricketer
24 March – Krunal Pandya, cricketer
7 May – Gaurav Chaudhary, Youtuber^[2]
29 June – D. Karthika Anagha, Carnatic classical vocalist
Hansika Motwani
9 August – Hansika Motwani, actress
27 September – Amzad Ali, cricketer
16 October – Shardul Thakur, cricketer
26 October – Amala Paul, actress
Karun Nair
6 December – Karun Nair, Indian cricketer

Deaths[edit]

File:Nutan Hindi Movie Actress (14).jpg
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[edit]

↑ 2 Bombs Kill 41 and Injure 140 in India during Ramlila [1]
↑ Jain, Ananya (5 August 2020). "Technical Guruji Biography : Here's Everything You Need To Know About Gaurav Chaudhary". IndiaTimes. Retrieved 23 January 2021.

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