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Historical Event on 1/16/1996

Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1963Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died.
2/25/1993BJP rally in New Delhi foiled.
2/14/1959Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
12/10/1952World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
8/3/1898Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born.
8/28/1997Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
6/15/1993PM Narasimha Rao visits Oman; India and Oman decide to give each other MFN status.
1/21/2000The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president.