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Historical Event on 2/8/1971

Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/15/1996Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.
8/18/1911Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born.
2/11/1996Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba arrives in India for a week-long visit.
11/24/1963Marotrao Kannamwar, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, passed away.
12/29/1844W.C. Bonerjee, first President of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidderpore, Calcutta.
8/13/1954Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
9/30/1999A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term.
4/3/1991UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls .
11/25/1999Madras HC sets aside Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi's order rejecting the mercy petitions of four accused in Rajiv Gandhi case.