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Historical Event on 1/28/1895

Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born.

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3/25/1998Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99.
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