1991 in India

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Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Chief Justice of India –
  • until 24 November – Ranganath Misra
  • 25 November-12 December – Kamal Narain Singh
  • starting 13 December – Madhukar Hiralal Kania

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant
• Arunachal Pradesh –
  • until 16 March: Devi Das Thakur
  • 16 March-25 March: Loknath Mishra
  • starting 25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy
• Assam – Devi Das Thakur (until 17 March), Loknath Mishra (starting 17 March)
• Bihar –
  • until 13 February: Mohammad Saleem
  • 14 February-18 March: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
  • starting 18 March: Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
• Goa – Khurshed Alam Khan (until 17 March), Bhanu Prakash Singh (starting 18 March)
• Gujarat – Sarup Singh
• Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal
• Himachal Pradesh – Virendra Verma
• Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena
• Karnataka – Bhanu Pratap Singh
• Kerala – B. Rachaiah
• Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan
• Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam
• Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi
• Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe (starting 8 May)
• Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal
• Nagaland – M. M. Thomas
• Odisha – Yagya Dutt Sharma
• Punjab – Om Prakash Malhotra (until 7 August), Surendra Nath (starting 7 August)
• Rajasthan – Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya (until 26 August), Sarup Singh (starting 26 August)
• Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
• Tamil Nadu – Surjit Singh Barnala (until 14 February), Bhishma Narain Singh (starting 14 February)
• Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
• Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy
• West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events[]

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: The stone mosaic that stands at the exact location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur

• 6 January – The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded in Udaipur.
• 21 May – Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu during the election campaign.
• 31 May – 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.
• 15 June – When the general election results are all compiled, the Congress Party has won a plurality of votes.
• 21 June – Indian National Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister.
• 24 June – J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
• 24 July – The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
• 17 October – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.^[1]
• 20 October – The 6.8 M_w  Uttarkashi earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 768–2,000 and injuring 1,383–1,800.
• 11 December – Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.

Births[]

• 

  Karun Nair
  26 January – Vijay Shankar, cricketer
• 16 February – Mayank Agarwal, cricketer
• 24 March – Krunal Pandya, cricketer
• 7 May – Gaurav Chaudhary, Youtuber^[2]
• 9 August – Hansika Motwani, actress
• 27 September – Amzad Ali, cricketer
• 16 October – Shardul Thakur, cricketer
• 26 October – Amala Paul, actress
• 6 December – Karun Nair, Indian cricketer

Deaths[]

• 

  Nutan
  21 February – Nutan, Bollywood actress
• 15 May – Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (born 1901)
• 

  Rajiv Gandhi
  21 May – Rajiv Gandhi, prime minister (1984–1989), Bharat Ratna (1991) (born 1944)
• 24 October – Ismat Chughtai, writer (born 1915)

References[]

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1991