please mention important events during these years also, if possible.
2007-08-13 05:32:51 · 3 answers · asked by sarita s 1 in Travel ➔ India ➔ Other - India
1. Indian National Congress: (August 15, 1947 - March 24, 1977)
Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru (Four tems:1947-1952, 1952-1957, 1957-1962, and 1962-1964), and Lal Bahadur Shastri (June 9, 1964 - January 11, 1966) and Indira Gandhi (January 24, 1966 - March 24, 1977)
** Gulzari Lal Nanda served as acting Prime Minister during two transition periods.
Major Events in 1977:
The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections.
More than 10,000 people die when a cyclone hits India's southeast coast. The storm disrupts life for 5.4 million people in 830 villages, and damages 14,000 km² of cropland.
2. Janata Party (March 24, 1977 - January 14, 1980).
Prime Minister: Morarji Desai (March 24, 1977 - July 28, 1979) and Choudhary Charan Singh (July 28, 1979 - January 14, 1980).
Major Events in 1980:
Indira Gandhi was back in power.
Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash.
The Indian Hockey team won the Gold in the Olympics this year, after 16 years .
India Today in its May 1st edition has a cover-page on Amitabh Bachchan calling him a 'One-Man Industry' .
3. Congress (I) (Indian National Congress) (January 14, 1980 - December 2, 1989)
Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi (January 14, 1980 - October 31, 1984) and Rajiv Gandhi (October 31, 1984 - December 2, 1989).
Major Events in 1984:
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi dispatches troops into Amritsar's Harimandir Sahib, Sikhdom's holiest shrine.
Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh bodyguards.
Deadly gas leaks from a pesticide plant owned by U.S.-based Union Carbide Corp in the central city of Bhopal, killing some 6,500 people and injuring 20,000 in the world's worst industrial disaster.
Major Events in 1989:
V.P. Singh becomes the Prime Minister of India after Lok Sabha elections.
Mulayam Singh Yadav becomes the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the first time.
4. Janata Dal (December 2, 1989 - June 21, 1991)
Prime Minister: Vishwanath Pratap Singh (December 2- November 10, 1990) and Chandra Shekhar (November 10, 1990 - June 21, 1991)
Major Events in 1991:
Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Tamil suicide bomber in southern India during the election campaign.
J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
The Government of India constitutes the Company Law Board as an independent quasi-judicial body thus giving up direct control on matters of company law.
5. Congress (I) (Indian National Congress) (June 21, 1991 - May 16, 1996)
Prime Minister: P. V. Narasimha Rao
Major Events in 1996:
At least 194 pilgrims were reported to have frozen to death in northern Kashmir after being stranded by violent rain and snow storms.
A Saudi Arabian Boeing 747 jumbo jet and a Kazakhstan Ilyushin cargo plane collide near New Delhi, killing 349 people in the world's deadliest mid-air collision.
6. Bharatiya Janata Party (May 16, 1996 - June 1, 1996)
Prime Minister: Atal Behari Vajpayee
7. Janata Dal (June 1, 1996 - March 19, 1998)
Prime Minister: H. D. Deve Gowda (June 1, 1996 - April 21, 1997) and Inder Kumar Gujral (April 21, 1997 - March 19, 1998)
Major Events in 1998:
Sonia Gandhi launches her election campaign at Sriperumbudur, where her husband was assassinated.
Vajpayee stuns the world by conducting three underground nuclear tests close to the Pakistan border. These are followed, two days later, by two more tests at the same site. The move provokes international outrage and punitive sanctions from the United States, Japan, and others.
The first talks between India and Pakistan since 1992 over the disputed Siachen glacier end when Pakistan rejects an Indian proposal for a ceasefire.
A passenger train rams into another train in the northern Indian state of Punjab, killing at least 201 people.
8. Bharatiya Janata Party (March 19, 1998 - May 22, 2004)
Prime Minister: Atal Behari Vajpayee
Major Events in 2004:
India win the ODI cricket series in Pakistan.
Shankaracharya of Kanchi Jayendra Saraswathi is arrested on charges of murdering a temple manager.
The strongest earthquake in 40 years originates from the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra island in Indonesia, measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale and creating tsunami tidal waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of South Asia. More than 15,000 reported killed in India and 250,000 across the globe.
9. Congress (I) (Indian National Congress): (May 22, 2004 - In office)
Prime Minister: Dr. Manmohan Singh
2007-08-13 07:03:17 · answer #1 · answered by sins 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
the government would not make it public because of the fact that isn't any longer REQUIRED. If Hindus have been killed for the period of partition, Muslims in India have been additionally killed by way of Hindus. This has exceeded off as modern-day because of the fact the Gujarat riots. India would not run in sync what Pakistanis do. we've not stooped to the point of imitating a terrorist state, inspite of the undeniable fact that their spies in India save attempting that against minorities. Caste gadget and untouchability became there in the Hindu society even in the previous Nehru and gandhi have been born and exists to right now time. you're feeble and ambigous, no longer loud and sparkling. How can Hindus unite below the north India brahmin celebration while their time table isn't ideal to the the remainder of India. You mentioned in certainly one of your solutions that the north Indian represents India and others better obey, in respond to the question asked by way of a individual who mentioned that all and sundry south Indians are swine and lemur and could be thrown into the sea. You lost each and every thing, did you? no person is going to be in charge for that. What makes you think of that the Congress is at your mercy? Many harmless human beings have been killed in Ayodhya, Gujarat, Mumbai, Orissa, Karnataka and MP. who's reponsible? they may well be cowards on your language, yet Indians desire them. The voice of chinese language and Pakistani spies isn't HEARD IN INDIA.
2016-11-12 05:14:18 · answer #2 · answered by olli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please check the following link for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India#List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_India
2007-08-13 12:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋