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Historical Event on 7/31/1997

Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
9/30/1999India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'.
7/31/1997Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.
12/10/1989Janardan Swami passed away.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
2/4/1993D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away.
12/24/1932The third and last Round Table conference on India ends. It was was held in London.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
8/6/1996Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.