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. |