List of Politics Events on May-1999

11- May-1999 Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people.
11- May-1999 Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down.
12- May-1999 Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit.
14- May-1999 Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.
15- May-1999 Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district.
15- May-1999 The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.
16- May-1999 Senior Congress leaders oppose Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister.
17- May-1999 Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
20- May-1999 The CWC expels Sharad Pawar, M. P. A. Sangma and Tariq Anwar for six years from the primary membership of the party.
25- May-1999 The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil.
27- May-1999 IAF loses two fighter aircrafts in the Kargil area. Pakistan claims it has Flight Lieutenant Nachiketa in its custody.
27- May-1999 Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party.
30- May-1999 India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
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