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Historical Event on 3/8/1986

L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/8/1986Radiya Sultan, first lady ruler of Delhi throne, passed away in a battle.
5/3/1927Riots between Sikhs and Muslims in Lahore claims 14 lives and leaves 100 injured.
6/10/1908Mary Clubwala Jadhav, politician and social worker, was born.
3/1/1994Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57.
2/13/1993School collapses killing 21 pupils and 4 teachers.
6/12/1970Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away.
6/4/1932Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramhans, passed away.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
3/21/1934Buta Singh, former Home Minister of India, was born.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.