List of Politics Events on October-2000

3- October-2000 Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
4- October-2000 Kashmir has been the cause of tensions between India and Pakistan and foreign interference should be stopped,'' said Russian President Vladimir Putin at the joint session of both the Houses of Parliament.
6- October-2000 Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief, withdraws her resignation from the Union Cabinet of Ministers.
9- October-2000 The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.
10- October-2000 The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.
19- October-2000 The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.
24- October-2000 Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi.
25- October-2000 The BJP Legislature Party in UP elects Rajnath Singh its leader.
27- October-2000 The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
29- October-2000 Jitendra Prasada, senior Congress leader, files nomination papers for the party presidential polls setting the stage for a contest against the incumbent, Ms. Sonia Gandhi.
31- October-2000 Chhattisgarh, the 26th State of Indian Union, comes into existence with the swearing in of its Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahay and Chief Minister Ajit Jogi at a glittering function at Raipur.
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