List of Politics Events on February-1996

6- February-1996 Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91).
11- February-1996 Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba arrives in India for a week-long visit.
12- February-1996 Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.
19- February-1996 Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states.
22- February-1996 Madanlal Khurana, Delhi CM, resigns (Hawala scandal).
22- February-1996 Indian police charge 14 more politicians in corruption scandal that has already led to resignations from the Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's govt.
24- February-1996 S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.
26- February-1996 Parliament's budget session opens.
26- February-1996 Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
27- February-1996 In the Jain hawala case, non bailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians including BJP leader L.K. Advani, former Dy. PM Devi Lal and former Union Ministers.
27- February-1996 Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
27- February-1996 Suresh Kalmadi, Minister of State for Railways, presents vote-on-account railway budget; 1995-96 Economic Survey shows 6.3\% growth in GDP; 20\% interim relief for newspaper employees announced by govt.
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