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Historical Event on 3/7/1998

A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/8/1893Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore.
9/17/1938Dilip Purushottam Chitre, famous Marathi poet, story writer, critic and Sahitya Academy awardee, was born.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
5/5/1916Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
6/29/1998Government decides to grant full statehood for Delhi and create three new States namely Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
2/23/1932The N. W. Frontier province is created.
8/27/1990The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections.
1/1/1900Doordrahsan was started. Doordarshan is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati.
6/14/1985M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.