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Historical Event on 2/6/1953

Congress, PSP, CP and Jansangh recognised as All India parties by the Election Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
5/2/1769Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born.
4/8/1997Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case.
11/7/2000Indrajit Bhalotia wins the Wills Southern Open golf tournament.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
1/8/1999Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.
10/17/1915Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur.
10/31/1991Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya.
10/22/1999The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.