Indian History

 Contesting Candidates for Ambedkar Nagar Assembly Elections 2025      Party Candidate     AAP (Won)  Ajay Dutt  46285   BJP Khushiram Chunar  42055   Congress Jay Prakash  7172   Ambedkar Nagar is one of the ten assembly constituencies that unite to form the South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency which is currently represented by Ramvir Bidhuri of the BJP who claimed the seat in the last parliamentary elections in 2024.  History of Ambedkar Nagar Assembly Constituency Ajay Dutt  is the incumbent MLA from Ambedkar Nagar assembly constituency. He had won the seat in 2015 and 2020.  Ashok Kumar, who has later joined the BJP, won in 2013 by defeating his nearest BJP rival Khushi Ram Chunar by a margin of 11670 votes.  Congress MLA Prem Singh had represented the seat from 1993 to 2013.  Ambedkar Nagar is one of the twelve assembly constituencies in Delhi which are reserved for the candidates belonging ...

Contesting Candidates for Adarsh Naga Assembly Elections 2025      Party Candidate     AAP Mukesh Kumar Goel  41028   BJP (Won) Raj Kumar Bhatia  52510   Congress Shivank Singhal  5460   Adarsh Nagar is one of the ten assembly constituencies that unite to form the parliamentary constituency of Chandni Chowk which is currently represented by Praveen Khandelwal of the BJP who won the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.  History of Adarsh Nagar Assembly Constituency Ashwani Ahuja, who entered the fray as a candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), came a distant fourth with 5640 votes. Whereas former UP CM Mayawati led BSP drew a blank in 2013 assembly polls to Delhi, in the previous assembly elections held in 2008, the party had won two seats.  ...

1942 - Death of revolutionary leader Sachindra Nath Sanyal who was born on 3 June 1893 in Benares, then in North-Western Provinces. He died on 7 February 1942.  Jailed for his involvement in the Kakori conspiracy, Sanyal was the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA, which after 1928 became the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association). 

1931 - Death of Pt. Motilal Nehru (6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931 ), founder of Swaraj Party or the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party which was formed on 1st January, 1923. Motilal Nehru was the father of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister.  

2008 - Death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on 5 February 2008 . A self-styled Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM), a form of silent meditation. 

1916 - Banaras Hindu University was founded on February 4th, 1916 by Madan Mohan Malviya.  1922 -The Chauri Chaura Incident took place on 4 February 1922 at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in British India. On that day, a police station in the small town of Chauri Chaura was set on fire that killed 22 policemen, leading to Gandhi suspending his non-cooperation movement.  1948 - RSS was banned  on 4 February, 1948 following the assassination of Gandhi on 30th January, 1948.  1974  – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician, passed away on 4th February, 1974   in Kolkata.

1509- The Battle of Diu was fought on  3 February 1509  between the Portuguese and the combined forces of the Sultan of Gujarat, the Zamorin of Calicut, the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt with support from the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The Portuguese emerged victorious.  1816 - Birth of Ram Singh, one of the famous leaders of the Kuka movement, on 3rd February, 1816.  Initially started as a religious movement with a view to reforming the Sikh religion by purging it of the degenerate features, Kuka movement, founded in 1840 in the Western Punjab, turned into a political struggle against the British. The founder of Kuka movement was Bhagat Jawahar Mal.   The Kuka Revolt also came to be known as Namdhari Movement.  Ram Singh gave a call to his followers for boycott of British goods, government schools and government posts. Known to his followers as  Satguru , he was deported by the British to Burma where he died in 1885. 1925 - On 3 Fe...