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Historical Event on 8/28/1997

Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1976Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor.
8/16/1994Government agrees to present the revised ATR on JPC report on Scam; Parliament crisis defused.
7/21/1962Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.
10/9/1970Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
3/13/1978Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), passed away.
12/5/1999The Union Home Ministry ask Intelligence Bureau (IB) to conduct an inquiry against IB officials in ISRO spy case.
12/12/1955The President promulgated an ordinance providing the usage of Hindi with English for official purposes of Indian Union. B.G. Kher Commission (under article 344(I) of the Constitution) constituted. Hindi Teaching Scheme was introduced under Ministry of Home Affairs.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
10/23/1883Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat.
2/11/1996Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta.